Jess, a working-class woman living as a man, survives a period of homelessness, tries to unionize fellow workers, worries about being found out, and searches for community while undergoing a secret transsexual operation. The effect of this book is in some ways comparable to the Stonewall Riots, in that it forcefully brought attention to concerns that had long been ignored by a wider public.

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