Feminism against Cisness (ASTERISK)

✍ Scribed by Emma Heaney (editor)

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 anti-Blackness, 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 this ideology's counterrevolutionary 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

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Sexual Difference without Cisness / Emma Heaney
I. Trans Politics
1. On Trans Use of the Many Sojourner Truths / Cameron Awkward-Rich
2. 1970s Trans Feminism as Decolonial Praxis / Margaux L. Kristjansson and Emma Heaney
II. Trans History
3. Trans Feminine Histories, Piece by Piece, or, Vernacular Print and the Histories of Gender / Greta Lafleur
4. Denaturing Cisness, or, Toward Trans History as Method / Beans Velocci
III. Trans Theory
5. Two Senses of Gender Abolition: Gender as Accumulation Strategy / Kay Gabriel
6. Faceless: Nonconfessions of a Gender / Marquis Bey
IV. Anti-Trans Politics
7. Assuaging the Anxious Matriarch: Social Conservatives, Radical Feminists, and Dark Money against Trans Rights / Joanna Wuest
8. Caring for Trans Kids, Transnationally, or, Against “Gender-Critical” Moms / Jules Gill-Peterson
9. Generic Deductiveness: Reasoning as Mood in the Stoner Neo-Noir / Grace Lavery
Afterword. Toward a Feminism for the Living / Durba Mitra
Contributors
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