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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. 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
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
Price: $27.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Series: ASTERISK
Publication Date:
03 May 2024
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781478030454
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“In this smart collection of essays, trans feminist scholars show us how cisness is constructed, imposed, naturalized, racialized, scientized, stabilized, policed, resisted, twisted, disputed, and refused. They remind us that the dominant fictions of gender sustain race, class, and colonial hierarchies, and they point us toward the solidarities we need in our troubled political moment.”
— Joanne Meyerowitz, author of
Emma Heaney is Clinical Assistant Professor of Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement at New York University and the author of The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Sexual Difference without Cisness / Emma Heaney 1
I. Trans Politics
1. On Trans Use of the Many Sojourner Truths / Cameron Awkward-Rich 37
2. 1970s Trans Feminism as Decolonial Praxis / Margaux L. Kristjansson and Emma Heaney 56
II. Trans History
3. Trans Feminine Histories, Piece by Piece, or, Vernacular Print and the Histories of Gender / Greta Lafleur 83
4. Denaturing Cisness, or, Toward Trans History as Method / Beans Velocci 108
III. Trans History
5. Two Senses of Gender Abolition: Gender as Accumulation Strategy / Kay Gabriel 135
6. Faceless: Nonconfessions of a Gender / Marquis Bey 158
IV. Anti-Trans Politics
7. Assuaging the Anxious Matriarch: Social Conservatives, Radical Feminists, and Dark Money against Trans Rights / Joanna Wuest 175
8. Caring for Trans Kids, Transnationally, or Against “Gender-Critical” Moms / Jules Gill-Peterson 197
9. Generic Deductiveness: Reasoning as Mood in the Stoner Neo-Noir / Grace Lavery 217
Afterword. Toward a Feminism for the Living / Durba Mitra 241
Contributors 251
Index 257
Introduction. Sexual Difference without Cisness / Emma Heaney 1
I. Trans Politics
1. On Trans Use of the Many Sojourner Truths / Cameron Awkward-Rich 37
2. 1970s Trans Feminism as Decolonial Praxis / Margaux L. Kristjansson and Emma Heaney 56
II. Trans History
3. Trans Feminine Histories, Piece by Piece, or, Vernacular Print and the Histories of Gender / Greta Lafleur 83
4. Denaturing Cisness, or, Toward Trans History as Method / Beans Velocci 108
III. Trans History
5. Two Senses of Gender Abolition: Gender as Accumulation Strategy / Kay Gabriel 135
6. Faceless: Nonconfessions of a Gender / Marquis Bey 158
IV. Anti-Trans Politics
7. Assuaging the Anxious Matriarch: Social Conservatives, Radical Feminists, and Dark Money against Trans Rights / Joanna Wuest 175
8. Caring for Trans Kids, Transnationally, or Against “Gender-Critical” Moms / Jules Gill-Peterson 197
9. Generic Deductiveness: Reasoning as Mood in the Stoner Neo-Noir / Grace Lavery 217
Afterword. Toward a Feminism for the Living / Durba Mitra 241
Contributors 251
Index 257