Cistem Failure
€33.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781478018445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marquis Bey |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.242 |
| Publishing Date | 02/08/2022 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €31.98 |
| Tax | €1.92 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €33.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.