{"product_id":"cistem-failure-essays-on-blackness-and-cisgender-9781478015802","title":"Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marquis Bey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Transgender Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCistem Failure\u003c\/i\u003e Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that \"matches\" one's sex---that is, to be cisgender---when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the \u003ci\u003eThe Powerpuff Girls\u003c\/i\u003e to the greeting \"How ya mama'n'em?\" to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat as a category to hold the myriad ways that people who may or may not have undergone gender-affirmative interventions depart from gender alignment. At the same time, blackness, they contend, strikes at the heart of cisgender's invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46442785570967,"sku":"9781478015802","price":9720.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781478015802.webp?v=1769124141","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cistem-failure-essays-on-blackness-and-cisgender-9781478015802","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}