Nonbinary
A Feminist Autotheory
Published on 17. May 2023
978-1-009-27866-9 (ISBN)
Description
This autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement between 'woman' and 'nonbinary' is possible, affectively and politically. In fact, a nonbinary structure of feeling has been central in the history of feminist thought, such as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949). This structure of feeling is not antifeminist but indexical of a desire for a form of embodiment and relationality beyond binary sex and gender. Finally, the Element provides a partial defense of nonbinary gender identity by tracing the development of the term in online spaces of the early 2000s. While it might be tempting to read its development as symptomatic of the forms of selfhood reproduced in (neo)liberal, racialized platform capitalism, this reading is too simplistic because it misses how the term emerged within communities of care.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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3,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-009-27866-9 (9781009278669)
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06/2023
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Content
1. Trans Desire's Retroactive Birth; 2. Care on the Borderland between Feminist and Trans Thought; 3. 'You Can't Not Be a Woman'; 4. The Online Development of Nonbinary Gender as a Practice of Care; 5. Beauvoir's Nonbinary Structure of Feeling; References.
