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A review by coepi
My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton
4.0
I really enjoyed this book and wish it was more widely known and accessible (I was only able to read it through my university's subscription). It's very readable and interesting and gave me quite a lot of insight into lesbian history. Also, I had fun spotting references to anthropologists I know of (Sherry Ortner, David Schneider, etc) and hearing abut what they were like as people.
My one critique of My Butch Career would be that the ending feels a little abrupt - there's not a lot of tying up loose ends and so on, it just... stops. Still, I suppose that's sometimes how autobiography goes. It also wasn't nearly enough of a problem to undermine how much I liked this book overall and would heartily recommend it.
My one critique of My Butch Career would be that the ending feels a little abrupt - there's not a lot of tying up loose ends and so on, it just... stops. Still, I suppose that's sometimes how autobiography goes. It also wasn't nearly enough of a problem to undermine how much I liked this book overall and would heartily recommend it.