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Feminism against cisness / Emma Heaney, editor.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781478030454
ISBN: 1478030453
ISBN: 9781478026228
ISBN: 1478026227
Physical Description: viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Sexual difference without cisness / Emma Heaney -- On trans use of the many Sojourner Truths / Cameron Awkward-Rich -- 1970s trans feminism as decolonial praxis / Margaux L. Kristjansson and Emma Heaney -- Trans feminine histories, piece by piece, or, vernacular print and the histories of gender / Greta LaFleur -- Denaturing cisness, or, toward trans history as method / Beans Velocci -- Two senses of gender abolition : gender as accumulation strategy / Kay Gabriel -- Faceless : nonconfessions of a gender / Marquis Bey -- Assuaging the anxious matriarch : social conservatives, radical feminists, and dark money against trans rights / Joanna Wuest -- Caring for trans kids, transnationally, or, Against "gender-critical" moms / Jules Gill-Peterson -- Generic deductiveness : reasoning as mood in the stoner neo-noir / Grace Lavery -- Afterword: Toward a feminism for the living / Durba Mitra.