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Thinking Cis
Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence
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2023
Summary
The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of color. Scholars have long examined what it means to be transgender in a cisgender society, how transgender people experience everyday life and violence, and how transgender people make sense of and cope with that violence. However, to understand what causes anti-trans violence, it is necessary to turn to those most likely to perpetrate it: cisgender people.
Through extensive interviews and focus groups with cisgender-heterosexual men and cisgender-lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, Thinking Cis examines how cisgender people make sense of gender, attractions to transgender women, and the murders of Black trans women. It also analyzes how the social construction of cisness shapes how we think about race, gender, sexuality and who we consider worthy of living. alithia zamantakis pushes readers to rethink prominent understandings of anti-trans violence and in doing so, argues that it is not simply transphobia that gives rise to murders of trans women but a fear and hatred for what it means to love and desire transgender women.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7762-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7763-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: “A Natural Woman”: How Cissexism, Classism, and White Supremacy Permeate the Desire for a “Natural” Look in a Woman No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 2: “That’s a Guy”: Viewing Trans Women’s Photos No access Pages 23 - 62
Chapter 3: Cisgender Women Thinking Cis No access Pages 63 - 98
Chapter 4: “They Kill Us Because They Hate What It Means to Love Us”: Desire and Symbolic Violence No access Pages 99 - 114
Chapter 5: “I Might Just Kill You”: The Murders of Black Trans Women No access Pages 115 - 142
Conclusion No access Pages 143 - 154
Methods and Methodologies No access Pages 155 - 168
