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

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

£21.99

Product Code: 9798216389804

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Weight .340 kg
Dimensions 22.6 × 3 × 14.8 cm

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The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of colour. 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 analyses 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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