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Cisgender: Disorienting a Category

Cisgender: Disorienting a Category

Zurn, Perry

Hardcover

Series: Asterisk

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1478033894
ISBN13: 9781478033899
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Cisgender, Perry Zurn turns an incisive yet playful eye toward the norm against which transgender gets defined. A cisgender person is informally understood as someone who doctors called male or female at birth, became a boy or girl, and finally lived as a man or woman--without fuss. It's this without fuss that anchors the cis/trans binary as it has come to be understood and belies the complex relationship all people have with gender. How did this category arise? And what else might it do? Cisgender is the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. Utilizing unplumbed archives and fresh interviews, Zurn offers a critical history of the term from the 1990s to the present, deftly defamiliarizing and reimagining cis at the same time. This unique examination of cisgender is a must-read for all readers invested in trans life and the futures of gender.

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