Cisgender : Disorienting a Category.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zurn, Perry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feinberg, Leslie, 1949-2014.

Gender transition.

Local Subjects:

Feinberg, Leslie, 1949-2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Cisgender is the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. Utilizing unplumbed archives and fresh interviews, Perry Zurn offers a critical history of the term from the 1990s to the present, deftly defamiliarizing and reimagining cis at the same time.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Dis/Orienting

One. "Cis Isn't a Slur. It's Latin!"

Two. A Faerie Punk Counterhistory of Cis

Three. Cis Soup: An Early Stew of Meanings

Four. Cis Privilege Knapsacks

Five. Cis Goes Mainstream-at Some Cost

Six. Cisnormativity and Coloniality

Seven. On the Sexedness and Whiteness of Cisness

Eight. Cripping Cis: What Disability Demands

Nine. Why Cis Works

Ten. When Cis Doesn't Work

Coda

Glossary of Cis+ Terms

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4780-6237-1

OCLC:

1592048578