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Book

Feminism against cisness

Call Number

  • 306.768 F3293 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Physical Description

viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class hierarchies. It is, therefore, no accident that the social processes making cisness compulsory are also implicated in antiblackness, misogyny, indigenous erasure, xenophobia, and bourgeois antipathy for working-class life. Working from trans historical archives and materialist trans feminist theories, this volume demonstrates the violent work that cis ideology has done and thinks toward a future for feminism beyond its counter-revolutionary pull. Contributors. Cameron Awkward-Rich, Marquis Bey, Kay Gabriel, Jules Gill-Peterson, Emma Heaney, Margaux L. Kristjansson, Greta LaFleur, Grace Lavery, Durba Mitra, Beans Velocci, Joanna Wuest"--

Contents

  • Introduction. Sexual difference without cisness / I: Trans politics
  • On trans use of the many Sojourner Truths / 1970s trans feminism as decolonial praxis / II: Trans history
  • Trans feminine histories, piece by piece, or, vernacular print and the histories of gender / Denaturing cisness, or, toward trans history as method / III: Trans theory
  • Two senses of gender abolition : gender as accumulation strategy / Faceless : nonconfessions of a gender / IV: Anti-trans politics
  • Assuaging the anxious matriarch : social conservatives, radical feminists, and dark money against trans rights / Caring for trans kids, transnationally, or, Against "gender-critical" moms / Generic deductiveness : reasoning as mood in the stoner neo-noir / Afterword. Toward a feminism for the living

Subjects

Genres

Essays.

Added Authors

Emma Heaney