Cistem Failure : Essays on Blackness and Cisgender Paperback / softback
by Marquis Bey
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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.
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- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:02/08/2022
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- ISBN:9781478018445
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:02/08/2022
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- ISBN:9781478018445