| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 162 pages) |
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Asterisk |
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Asterisk (Duke University Press)
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| Contents |
Back in the Day -- Heart of Cisness -- How Ya Mama'n'em? -- Notes on (Trans)Gender -- Blowing Up Narnia -- RE: [No Subject] -- The Coalition of Gender Abolition |
| 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, 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 of a category to hold the myriad ways that people-who 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2022) |
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digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Philosophy
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Gender expression -- Philosophy
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African Americans.
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Cisgender people.
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Black or African American
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African American.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Transgender Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
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African Americans
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Cisgender people
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Gender identity -- Philosophy
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Cisgender identity.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021047319 |
| ISBN |
1478023031 |
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9781478023036 |
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