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Thinking Cis : Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence

1st ed.

Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (225 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-5381-7763-1

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LOC-SH: Gender identity ; Cisgender people-Psychology ; Transgender people-Public opinion ; Transphobia

A critical exploration of cisness and transphobia that pushes readers to grapple with what cisness means and the violence anti-trans oppression produces.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Critical Cis-ness Studies -- Critical Trans Studies -- Centering Cis-ness -- Setting the Scene -- Situating the Author within the Work -- Methods -- Final Caveats -- Outline of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1: "A Natural Woman": How Cissexism, Classism, and White Supremacy Permeate the Desire for a "Natural" Look in a Woman -- "When a Black woman makes their hair straight, it makes me more attracted to a White woman": Race, Gender, and Stylizations of the Body -- Nails -- Clothing, Makeup, Hair, and "Passing" -- Race, Class, and Hair -- "It Should Not Be Like a Werewolf": Cis-Het Men and Cis-LBQ Women's Discourse Surrounding Body Hair -- Hair, Hygiene, and Sex -- Trans Bodies as Unnatural -- Sociobiological Justifications -- Religious Justifications -- Trans-ness as Artificial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: "That's a Guy": Viewing Trans Women's Photos -- "I'm Gonna Give It an Eight": Rating Women -- Education and Income -- "That's a Question Mark": Race, Passing, and the Discourse of Desire -- Standardizing the Body -- Racing Desire -- Whiteness as Bland -- "It's Not My Type of Woman": Gender-Blind Language -- Friend-zoned -- Hyperfemininity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Cisgender Women Thinking Cis -- Different Ways of Thinking Cis -- Categorizing Thinking Cis -- The "Conditionally Accepting Cis-ter" -- Trans Women as Fundamentally Different -- Deceptive and Dishonest -- The "Casual Transphobe" -- Are You Trans? -- The Requirement to Come Out -- Misgendering Trans Women -- Individualizing Desire and Preferences -- "Critically Cis" -- Protecting Trans Women -- You Don't Need to Come Out -- Interrogating Their Own Genders -- Desire as Socially Shaped -- Conclusion -- Notes.