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| Genre/Form: | Memoirs |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Julia Serano |
| ISBN: | 9781580056229 1580056229 |
| OCLC Number: | 1031414963 |
| Description: | xxvi, 392 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Coming to terms with transgenderism and transsexuality -- Skirt chasers : why the media depicts the trans revolution in lipstick and heels -- Before and after : class and body transformations -- Boygasms and girlgasms : a frank discussion about hormones and gender difference -- Blind spots : on subconscious sex and gender entitlement -- Intrinsic inclinations : explaining gender and sexual diversity -- Pathological science : debunking sexological and sociological models of transgenderism -- Dismantling cissexual privilege -- Ungendering in art and academia -- Experiential gender -- Deconstructive surgery -- Bending over backwards : traditional sexism and trans-woman-exclusion policies -- Self-deception -- Trans-sexualization -- Submissive streak -- Love rant -- Crossdressing : demystifying femininity and rethinking "male privilege" -- Barrette manifesto -- Putting the feminine back into feminism -- The future of queer/trans activism. |
| Responsibility: | Julia Serano. |
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Advance praise for the second edition of Whipping Girl: "It's official: Whipping Girl is a 21st century feminist classic. It's also a gift to a culture (still) struggling to face its own misogyny. Serano's writing is clear, gracious, and incredibly illuminating." --Jennifer Baumgardner "Serano's thinking continues to challenge and delight--Whipping Girl is a foundational text that will prove to be timeless." --Jessica Valenti "Having only just come out as Transgender, I was taken by a friend to a bookstore and told to buy Whipping Girl immediately. As I read, the revelation dawned on me that experiencing my gender could be full of self-empowerment and liberation as opposed to the fear and shame I had already spent a lifetime living with. Not only was this book a light in the dark for someone jumping head-first into transition, it also served as an essential tool to pass on to family and friends to help them to better understand what it means to be Trans. I'm forever thankful for this book and its author." --Laura Jane Grace "Serano takes to task those who categorize "femininity" as artificial rather than a natural gender expression. Her convincing analysis and personal revelations challenge us to recognize our own sexist notions." --Ms. Magazine "Julia Serano offers a perspective sorely needed, but up until now rarely heard." --Bitch Magazine "An absorbing and essential achievement in both theory and biography." --Washington City Paper "Whipping Girl critiques media depictions of trans people, dismantles science's longtime characterization of transsexuality as pathology, and offers a whip-smart vision of a world that celebrates sexual difference." --AlterNet "Julia Serano is a careful and astute critic of the ways that trans women have been stereotyped and dismissed in popular culture, feminism, and psychology, and she repeatedly surprised me with her razor-sharp observations of the pervasive hatred of trans women and all differently gendered people. This is an important text for gender studies classes, as well as for therapists, journalists, and anybody who'd like to keep updated as a sex radical." --Patrick Califia, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism "Julia Serano is the wise, acerbic brain at the center of the transgender movement. The original edition of Whipping Girl forever connected trans theory to feminism and queer studies; this new edition updates that work as well as providing a compelling new preface that reflects the movement's enormous progress as well as the progress that remains to be made. Julia Serano is more than a brilliant writer and theorist; she's also a tremendously compassionate, humane woman whose work has enlarged the lives of all her readers. Urgent, contentious, generous, and brilliant." --Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author of She's Not There, and Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University "Julia Serano did not invent transfeminism, but she's done more to promote its ideas and demonstrate its necessity than any other writer. Her analysis of the misogyny at the root of transphobia is vital. This book should be taught in every introduction to gender and women's studies class in the country--read it, teach it, learn from it, and act on it." --Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History and Director, University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studies ----- Praise for the first edition: "Seminal." --Variety Read more...
