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"Situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle, Beyond Personhood provides a new philosophical approach to trans experience, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Talia Mae Bettcher shows how everyday experiences of trans people can point the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy"--
List of contents
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Central Concepts: “Worlds” Apart
1. Getting “Real”
2. On Intimacy and Distance
3. The Multiplicity of Meaning
Part II. The Main Idea: Between Appearance and Reality
4. The Politics of Pretense
5. The Phenomenology of Illusion
6. The Operations of Theory
Part III. The Buried Lede: The Liminalities among Us
7. The Coloniality of Intimacy
8. The Enslaving Self
9. Return of the Object
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Index
About the author
Talia Mae Bettcher is professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, and coeditor of
Trans Philosophy, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.
