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Cisgender

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Disorienting a Category

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvPerry Zurn

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In Cisgender, Perry Zurn turns an incisive yet playful eye toward the “norm” against which transgender gets defined. A cisgender person is informally understood as someone who doctors called male or female at birth, became a boy or girl, and finally lived as a man or woman – without fuss. It’s this “without fuss” that anchors the cis/trans binary as it has come to be understood and belies the complex relationship all people have with gender. How did this category arise? And what else might it do? Cisgender is the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. Utilizing unplumbed archives and fresh interviews, Zurn offers a critical history of the term from the 1990s to the present, deftly defamiliarizing and reimagining cis at the same time. This unique examination of cisgender is a must-read for all readers invested in trans life and the futures of gender.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-03
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieASTERISK
Antal sidor288
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478038771

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Acknowledgments viiDis/Orienting 11. “Cis Isn't a Slur. It’s Latin!” 172. A Faerie Punk Counterhistory of Cis 333. Cis Soup: An Early Stew of Meanings 514. Cis Privilege Knapsacks 695. Cis Goes Mainstream—At Some Cost 876. Cisnormativity and Coloniality 1057. On the Sexedness and Whiteness of Cisness 1258. Cripping Cis: What Disability Demands 1439. Why Cis Works 16110. When Cis Doesn’t Work 177Coda 195Glossary of Cis Terms 205Notes 213Bibliography 241Index 267

"This is the definitive book on the genealogies, uses, and panics that inform and animate the circulation of the term cis-. With engrossing prose and an expansive archive, Cisgender offers readers the opportunity to reflect on what was, what is, and what could have been. A must-read for anyone interested in gender and politics!"—C. Riley Snorton, co-author of A Black Queer History of the United States"Perry Zurn’s Cisgender gives voice to that important moment in a minority discourse where the discourse turns back to critique the dominant frame that minoritizes it. But it does far more than that – it deconstructs the cis/trans binary, in a welcome way, to open new conceptual worlds within and between both terms. May it launch many productive conversations." —Susan Stryker, author of, Transgender History