On the Meaning of Sex : Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekman, Kajsa Ekis, 1980-

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Standardized Title:

Om k̲nets existens. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender expression.

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Gender transition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Spinifex Press, 2022.

Contents:

Front Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Seventy-One Genders

A Revolution in the Making

1. "We're Expanding the Concept of What It Means to Be Human"

2. "Transwomen Are Women

But What Is a Woman?"

3. Boys Climb Trees, Girls Make Bead Necklaces: The Return of Stereotypes

4. Chasing the Gendered Brain

5. Gender Is in the Eye of the Beholder

6. 2007: The Order of Modernity

7. 2017: The Gender-Congruent Person

8. Help

My Son Loves Pink!

9. An Invisible Theory

10. The History of Sex : One-Sex and Two-Sex Theories

11. Return of the One-Sex Theory

12. What Happens to Biological Determinism When There Is No Body?

13. How Feminism Started Loving Gender

14. How Patriarchy Incorporated Its Dissidents

Part 2: One Pill Makes You a Girl, One Pill Makes You a Boy

The 71 Genders Become Two

15. When States Reassign Their Citizens' Sex

16. "Doctors are Salivating at the Prospect of Applying Puberty Blockers"

17. They Will Probably Become Infertile, But That's the Price You Pay

The New Era of Sterilisations

18. When States Convert Homosexuals

19. What Is a Man without a Penis?

20. Younger, Faster, Happier?

21. Hormone Evangelists in the Pharmaceutical Industry

22. Tumblr, Trans and Trauma

Testimonies from Teens

23. Mastectomy or Death: Harnessing the Threat of Suicide

24. The Industry Under Pressure

Part 3: The One Sex Theory

25. A Tale of Trans People?

26. Woman: A Dangerous Word

27. Vagina: A Dangerous Word

28. The Creation of the Cis-Person

or How We Fell in Love with Gender Roles

29. Gender Self-Identification

30. A Room of One's Own

31. Unspeakable Violence

32. Every Man's Right

33. Invisible Trans Men

34. Open Female Spaces, Closed Male Spaces

35. "The End of Women's Sport as We Know It"

36. "It Started with the Realisation that Women Do Not Exist"

A Fatal Blow to Equality Policies

37. "She Deserves a Kick in the Ovaries"

38. Sex, Race, Class, or ... An Exception to Intersectionality

39. Nature/Nurture

A Dialectical View

40. Notes on the Word 'Woman'

References

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Ekis Ekman, Kajsa On the Meaning of Sex

ISBN:

9781925950670

1925950670

Publisher Number:

99992949420

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.