In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that "matches" one's sex---that is, to be cisgender---when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some nat...

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Main Author:	Bey, Marquis (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham Duke University Press [2022]
Series:	Asterisk
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies African Americans Cisgender people Gender expression > Philosophy Gender identity > Philosophy
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-188 Volltext
Summary:	In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that "matches" one's sex---that is, to be cisgender---when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the The Powerpuff Girls to the greeting "How ya mama'n'em?" to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat as a category to hold the myriad ways that people who may or may not have undergone gender-affirmative interventions depart from gender alignment. At the same time, blackness, they contend, strikes at the heart of cisgender's invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (182 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781478023036
DOI:	10.1515/9781478023036