Failing to understand her whitenessThis book opens with a quote by Audre Lorde and, near the end, it references bell hooks to explain living as people on the margins. So, yeah, it's nice to be rich . Or you order someone to get it for you. strategically argues for understanding the struggles for gender liberation as a coalition of allies rather than trying to fit everyone under one trans "umbrella". She lived as a lesbian for many years and so knows stuff I can’t even guess at. Furthermore, it's really good if you've ever felt constrained by social gender constructions. talks a lot and says very little worth refuting. COMPLETELY AWESOME IN EVERY WAY.
It’s illuminating to watch the ways in which Serrano has laid the groundwork for many of the talking points we take for granted in trans rights conversations today — her refutations of “socialization,” her clear and well-argued stance against transness-as-women-fetishism (an abhorrent stance backed by the psychiatric establishment and ostensible (cis) feminists), etc. Failing to understand her whiteness within 21st century multiracial but white supremacist academia, and citizenry within racial, imperial America (a nation-state of Eurocolonial occupation) Serano misses the mark on genealogy of gender intersecting Euro-domination discourses of race, anti-indigenous genocide, blackness and white masculinity. I nearly forgot about the recommendation actually, but I stumbled across it while working and immediately decided to read it.
“It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op” or “post-op” when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either “circumcised” or “uncircumcised.”“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity” Library.
Well. I am embarrassed to admit just how completely oblivious I was of all of the various poliA heartfelt appeal to feminists to fight more for the right to be “feminine” – however each individual person defines that for herself.
House of Whipcord - Girl Whipped.
All of her writing on hormones feels very spot-on to me, as do her theories on "the scapegoating of femininity. Although I didn't necessarily agree with everything presented, I really appreciated Serano's well crafted arguments infused (but not overloaded) with her personal experience.This was an interesting and often very informative read. The book is a transfeminist manifesto which makes the case that transphobia is rooted in sexism and that transgender activism is a feminist movement.
She goes through the myriad forms of sexism and misogyny, the depiction of trans women in the media, and how LGBTQIA people of different sorts figure in feminist thought.This was an interesting and often very informative read. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is a 2007 book by gender theorist, biologist, and writer Julia Serano. You get it. i was just quoting it in my "cultural diversity" class in counseling school & now half the class promised to read it.
Julia Serano was like a more experienced, smarter, older sister, showing me that it is ok to be myself, whatever shape that is.
Alternately sent cold shivers down my back and had me marking up the margins with "Yes!
great critique of the objectification of trans people and bodies in the growing world of academic queer/trans studies. I nearly forgot about the recommendation actually, but I stumbled across it while working and immediately decided to read it. Contrite Girl's Spanking Stories Sunday, July 19, 2009.
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist.Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness tow This year was no different and the house was packed with Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. It took me two months to read this book, because I'd get frustrated about her insistence on the biological origins of "femininity" and have to close the book. ", "**", et cetera.
personal and political, truly feminist all the way down. Serano argues that "oppositional sexism" is a driving force behind In her book, Serano argued that cisgender people, lacking discomfort with their gender assigned at birth, nor thinking of themselves as or wishing they could become a different gender, Serano's argument of intrinsic inclinations was discussed in great detail in the book, taking the entirety of the sixth chapter, with much of the rest of the book relying on an understanding of this model in order to discuss the presence and place of trans women in feminism.
She makes a valid point that femininity has been almost universally derided, laughed at, and scorned. For the rest of us, the wish can be a receding mirage as we struggle to make a penny stretch, to squeeze time from job and other obligations, yadda.
The second edition of the book was published in March 2016.
.
Recommended to any and all feminists.
Welcome back. Just a very good book on trans misogyny unless part II personally connects with you. . Or, hell, nonfeminists.
Failing to understand her whitenessThis book opens with a quote by Audre Lorde and, near the end, it references bell hooks to explain living as people on the margins. So, yeah, it's nice to be rich . Or you order someone to get it for you. strategically argues for understanding the struggles for gender liberation as a coalition of allies rather than trying to fit everyone under one trans "umbrella". She lived as a lesbian for many years and so knows stuff I can’t even guess at. Furthermore, it's really good if you've ever felt constrained by social gender constructions. talks a lot and says very little worth refuting. COMPLETELY AWESOME IN EVERY WAY.
It’s illuminating to watch the ways in which Serrano has laid the groundwork for many of the talking points we take for granted in trans rights conversations today — her refutations of “socialization,” her clear and well-argued stance against transness-as-women-fetishism (an abhorrent stance backed by the psychiatric establishment and ostensible (cis) feminists), etc. Failing to understand her whiteness within 21st century multiracial but white supremacist academia, and citizenry within racial, imperial America (a nation-state of Eurocolonial occupation) Serano misses the mark on genealogy of gender intersecting Euro-domination discourses of race, anti-indigenous genocide, blackness and white masculinity. I nearly forgot about the recommendation actually, but I stumbled across it while working and immediately decided to read it.
“It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op” or “post-op” when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either “circumcised” or “uncircumcised.”“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity” Library.
Well. I am embarrassed to admit just how completely oblivious I was of all of the various poliA heartfelt appeal to feminists to fight more for the right to be “feminine” – however each individual person defines that for herself.
House of Whipcord - Girl Whipped.
All of her writing on hormones feels very spot-on to me, as do her theories on "the scapegoating of femininity. Although I didn't necessarily agree with everything presented, I really appreciated Serano's well crafted arguments infused (but not overloaded) with her personal experience.This was an interesting and often very informative read. The book is a transfeminist manifesto which makes the case that transphobia is rooted in sexism and that transgender activism is a feminist movement.
She goes through the myriad forms of sexism and misogyny, the depiction of trans women in the media, and how LGBTQIA people of different sorts figure in feminist thought.This was an interesting and often very informative read. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is a 2007 book by gender theorist, biologist, and writer Julia Serano. You get it. i was just quoting it in my "cultural diversity" class in counseling school & now half the class promised to read it.
Julia Serano was like a more experienced, smarter, older sister, showing me that it is ok to be myself, whatever shape that is.
Alternately sent cold shivers down my back and had me marking up the margins with "Yes!
great critique of the objectification of trans people and bodies in the growing world of academic queer/trans studies. I nearly forgot about the recommendation actually, but I stumbled across it while working and immediately decided to read it. Contrite Girl's Spanking Stories Sunday, July 19, 2009.
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist.Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness tow This year was no different and the house was packed with Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. It took me two months to read this book, because I'd get frustrated about her insistence on the biological origins of "femininity" and have to close the book. ", "**", et cetera.
personal and political, truly feminist all the way down. Serano argues that "oppositional sexism" is a driving force behind In her book, Serano argued that cisgender people, lacking discomfort with their gender assigned at birth, nor thinking of themselves as or wishing they could become a different gender, Serano's argument of intrinsic inclinations was discussed in great detail in the book, taking the entirety of the sixth chapter, with much of the rest of the book relying on an understanding of this model in order to discuss the presence and place of trans women in feminism.
She makes a valid point that femininity has been almost universally derided, laughed at, and scorned. For the rest of us, the wish can be a receding mirage as we struggle to make a penny stretch, to squeeze time from job and other obligations, yadda.
The second edition of the book was published in March 2016.
.
Recommended to any and all feminists.
Welcome back. Just a very good book on trans misogyny unless part II personally connects with you. . Or, hell, nonfeminists.
My original review is below. Seriously--it's a lot of good thinking about where stuff comes from and how to deal with it.My original review is below. Also, because she is my age, Serano was able to help me make sI'd call this a must-read for everyone concerned about transsexual/transgender issues, feminism, and intersectionality. Serano tackles two major issues in this book: 1) "mainstream" feminism in society and 2) transsexualism in society. Yes! In which case.. Best. She showed me that we're not crazy, broken or disgusting, and some of us are clever and funny and capable. All of her writing on hormones feels very spot-on to me, as do her theories on "the scapegoating of femininity.
Failing to understand her whitenessThis book opens with a quote by Audre Lorde and, near the end, it references bell hooks to explain living as people on the margins. So, yeah, it's nice to be rich . Or you order someone to get it for you. strategically argues for understanding the struggles for gender liberation as a coalition of allies rather than trying to fit everyone under one trans "umbrella". She lived as a lesbian for many years and so knows stuff I can’t even guess at. Furthermore, it's really good if you've ever felt constrained by social gender constructions. talks a lot and says very little worth refuting. COMPLETELY AWESOME IN EVERY WAY.
It’s illuminating to watch the ways in which Serrano has laid the groundwork for many of the talking points we take for granted in trans rights conversations today — her refutations of “socialization,” her clear and well-argued stance against transness-as-women-fetishism (an abhorrent stance backed by the psychiatric establishment and ostensible (cis) feminists), etc. Failing to understand her whiteness within 21st century multiracial but white supremacist academia, and citizenry within racial, imperial America (a nation-state of Eurocolonial occupation) Serano misses the mark on genealogy of gender intersecting Euro-domination discourses of race, anti-indigenous genocide, blackness and white masculinity. I nearly forgot about the recommendation actually, but I stumbled across it while working and immediately decided to read it.
“It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op” or “post-op” when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either “circumcised” or “uncircumcised.”“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity” Library.
Well. I am embarrassed to admit just how completely oblivious I was of all of the various poliA heartfelt appeal to feminists to fight more for the right to be “feminine” – however each individual person defines that for herself.
House of Whipcord - Girl Whipped.
All of her writing on hormones feels very spot-on to me, as do her theories on "the scapegoating of femininity. Although I didn't necessarily agree with everything presented, I really appreciated Serano's well crafted arguments infused (but not overloaded) with her personal experience.This was an interesting and often very informative read. The book is a transfeminist manifesto which makes the case that transphobia is rooted in sexism and that transgender activism is a feminist movement.
She goes through the myriad forms of sexism and misogyny, the depiction of trans women in the media, and how LGBTQIA people of different sorts figure in feminist thought.This was an interesting and often very informative read. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is a 2007 book by gender theorist, biologist, and writer Julia Serano. You get it. i was just quoting it in my "cultural diversity" class in counseling school & now half the class promised to read it.
Julia Serano was like a more experienced, smarter, older sister, showing me that it is ok to be myself, whatever shape that is.
Alternately sent cold shivers down my back and had me marking up the margins with "Yes!
great critique of the objectification of trans people and bodies in the growing world of academic queer/trans studies. I nearly forgot about the recommendation actually, but I stumbled across it while working and immediately decided to read it. Contrite Girl's Spanking Stories Sunday, July 19, 2009.
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist.Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness tow This year was no different and the house was packed with Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. It took me two months to read this book, because I'd get frustrated about her insistence on the biological origins of "femininity" and have to close the book. ", "**", et cetera.
personal and political, truly feminist all the way down. Serano argues that "oppositional sexism" is a driving force behind In her book, Serano argued that cisgender people, lacking discomfort with their gender assigned at birth, nor thinking of themselves as or wishing they could become a different gender, Serano's argument of intrinsic inclinations was discussed in great detail in the book, taking the entirety of the sixth chapter, with much of the rest of the book relying on an understanding of this model in order to discuss the presence and place of trans women in feminism.
She makes a valid point that femininity has been almost universally derided, laughed at, and scorned. For the rest of us, the wish can be a receding mirage as we struggle to make a penny stretch, to squeeze time from job and other obligations, yadda.
The second edition of the book was published in March 2016.
.
Recommended to any and all feminists.
Welcome back. Just a very good book on trans misogyny unless part II personally connects with you. . Or, hell, nonfeminists.
