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Summary:

"A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano's indispensable account of what it means to be a transgender woman in a world that consistently derides and belittles anything feminine. In a series of incisive essays, Serano draws on gender theory, her training as a biologist, her career in queer activism, and her own experiences before and after her gender transition to examine the deep connections between sexism and transphobia. She coins the term transmisogyny to describe the specific discrimination trans women face--and she shows how, in a world where masculinity is seen as unquestionably superior to femininity, transgender women's very existence becomes a threat to the established gender hierarchy. Now updated with a new afterword on the contemporary anti-trans backlash, Whipping Girl makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activists must work to embrace and empower femininity--in all of its wondrous forms--and to make the world safe and just for people of all genders and sexualities"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

• Coming to terms with transgenderism and transsexuality
• Skirt chasers : why the media depicts the trans revolution in lipstick and heels
• Before and after : class and body transformations
• Boygasms and girlgasms : a frank discussion about hormones and gender difference
• Blind spots : on subconscious sex and gender entitlement
• Intrinsic inclinations : explaining gender and sexual diversity
• Pathological science : debunking sexological and sociological models of transgenderism
• Dismantling cissexual privilege
• Ungendering in art and academia
• Experiential gender
• Deconstructive surgery
• Bending over backwards : traditional sexism and trans-woman-exclusion policies
• Self-deception
• Trans-sexualization
• Submissive streak
• Love rant
• Crossdressing : demystifying femininity and rethinking "male privilege"
• Barrette manifesto
• Putting the feminine back into feminism
• The future of queer/trans activism.

Author/Creator:

Serano, Julia , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Whipping girl: a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity [by Serano, J.]

Subjects:

Misogyny

Transphobia

Feminism

Transgender people

transgenderism

Transmisogyny

Anti-transgender discrimination

Transfeminism

Genres:

Essays

Autobiographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 422 pages ; 21 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

HQ77.9 .S47 2024

ISBNs:

1541604520
9781541604520 (paperback)
9781580056236 (ebook) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1389606905