Nonbinary - A Feminist Autotheory

This autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement between 'woman' and 'nonbinary' is possible, affectively and politically. In fact, a nonbinary structure of feeling has been central in the history of feminist thought, such as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949). This structure of feeling is not antifeminist but indexical of a desire for a form of embodiment and relationality beyond binary sex and gender. Finally, the Element provides a partial defense of nonbinary gender identity by tracing the development of the term in online spaces of the early 2000s. While it might be tempting to read its development as symptomatic of the forms of selfhood reproduced in (neo)liberal, racialized platform capitalism, this reading is too simplistic because it misses how the term emerged within communities of care.

List of contents

1. Trans Desire's Retroactive Birth; 2. Care on the Borderland between Feminist and Trans Thought; 3. 'You Can't Not Be a Woman'; 4. The Online Development of Nonbinary Gender as a Practice of Care; 5. Beauvoir's Nonbinary Structure of Feeling; References.

Summary

This autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement between 'woman' and 'nonbinary' is possible, affectively and politically. In fact, a nonbinary structure of feeling has been central in the history of feminist thought, such as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949).

Foreword

This autotheoretical Element argues that movement between 'woman' and 'non-binary' is possible, affectively, politically, and strategically.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie D. Clare, Stephanie D. (University of Washington) Clare
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009278676
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927867-6
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychology of gender, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, Cultural and media studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics