{"product_id":"butch-heroes-the-mit-press-9780262038973","title":"Butch Heroes The MIT Press","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePortraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A serious—and seriously successful—queer history recovery project.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherina Hetzeldorfer, tried “for a crime that didn't have a name” (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka “Big Ben,” over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for queer history in \u003ci\u003eButch Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e. Brodell offers a series of twenty-eight portraits of forgotten but heroic figures, each accompanied by a brief biographical note. They are individuals who were assigned female at birth but whose gender presentation was more masculine than femini\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524678951255,"sku":"9780262038973","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262038973.jpg?v=1731857718","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/butch-heroes-the-mit-press-9780262038973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}