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Feminism Against Cisness by Emma Heaney

Feminism Against Cisness

Emma Heaney

Duke University Press · Paperback · May 3, 2024

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.

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Who it’s for
Essays examine how cisness shapes sexed experience, feminist thought, and intersecting hierarchies.
Themes
Cisness and sexed experience, Gender, race, and class hierarchies, Trans feminist thought
Genres
Transgender Studies, Feminist Theory & Criticism, Gender Studies

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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.

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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

Cisness and Feminism

Essays examine how cisness shapes sexed experience, feminist thought, and intersecting hierarchies.

Come here for

  • Trans historical archives
  • Materialist trans feminist theories

Expect

  • An account of how cisness is made compulsory
  • Attention to its ties to anti-Blackness

Where it sits

Transgender Studies78%
Feminist Theory & Criticism74%
Gender Studies47%

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Publisher categories

  • Feminist Theory & Criticism
  • Gender Studies
  • Transgender Studies
Authors
Emma Heaney
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
May 3, 2024
Format
Paperback
Theme
Cisness and sexed experience · Gender, race, and class hierarchies · Trans feminist thought
Reading lane
Feminist Theory & Criticism