Fictionalized account of the author's own experiences. Story focuses on Betty, a 60 year old self-sufficient "poor white sister" and "nun of the common world" and how she survives in a "world of waste". This novel is part of the "Scavenger Trilogy", consisting of three novels Fleamarket Molly (December 1978), Garbage Can Sally (April 1979), and Ashcan Betty (February 1980).

In Collection:

• Red Jordan Arobateau

Creator

• Arobateau, Red Jordan

Subject

• Transgender people's writings
• Women--Social conditions
• Ragpickers
• Women--Economic conditions
• Authors, American--Homes and haunts
• Poverty
• Transgender people's writings, American
• Older women
• Women
• Poor women
• Dumpster diving

Publisher

• Oakland, CA : Published by Red Jordan Press

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: (sc),ovflw PS3551.R587 A84 2006

Keyword

• Transgender authors
• LGBTQ+ fiction
• LGBTQ+ authors

Date created

• 2006

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 281 pages ; 22 cm

Edition

• The Juvenilia Series
• Re-Photocopy series
• 1st Printing 1980, 2nd Edition 2006.
• Re-Xerox program

Geographic Coverage

• California--Berkeley

Coordinates

• 37.87159, -122.27275

Additional physical characteristics

• Spiral bound.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Red Jordan Arobateau

Provenance

• Part of the UVic Transgender Archive. Gift of the Estate of Red Jordan Arobateau, 2022.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• books
• novels
• fiction (general genre)
• autofiction

Date digitized

• November 2024

Technical note

• Keywords from the Homosaurus. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Copyright retained by Red Jordan Arobateau estate. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/sb5h-jq37

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