Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence
The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of color. Scholars have long examined what it means to be transgender in a cisgender society, how transgender people experience everyday life and violence, and how transgender people make sense of and cope with that violence. However, to understand what causes anti-trans violence, it is necessary to turn to those most likely to perpetrate it: cisgender people.

Through extensive interviews and focus groups with cisgender-heterosexual men and cisgender-lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, Thinking Cis examines how cisgender people make sense of gender, attractions to transgender women, and the murders of Black trans women. It also analyzes how the social construction of cisness shapes how we think about race, gender, sexuality and who we consider worthy of living. alithia zamantakis pushes readers to rethink prominent understandings of anti-trans violence and in doing so, argues that it is not simply transphobia that gives rise to murders of trans women but a fear and hatred for what it means to love and desire transgender women.

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Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence
The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of color. Scholars have long examined what it means to be transgender in a cisgender society, how transgender people experience everyday life and violence, and how transgender people make sense of and cope with that violence. However, to understand what causes anti-trans violence, it is necessary to turn to those most likely to perpetrate it: cisgender people.

Through extensive interviews and focus groups with cisgender-heterosexual men and cisgender-lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, Thinking Cis examines how cisgender people make sense of gender, attractions to transgender women, and the murders of Black trans women. It also analyzes how the social construction of cisness shapes how we think about race, gender, sexuality and who we consider worthy of living. alithia zamantakis pushes readers to rethink prominent understandings of anti-trans violence and in doing so, argues that it is not simply transphobia that gives rise to murders of trans women but a fear and hatred for what it means to love and desire transgender women.

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Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence

Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence

by alithia zamantakis
Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence

Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence

by alithia zamantakis

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Overview

The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of color. Scholars have long examined what it means to be transgender in a cisgender society, how transgender people experience everyday life and violence, and how transgender people make sense of and cope with that violence. However, to understand what causes anti-trans violence, it is necessary to turn to those most likely to perpetrate it: cisgender people.

Through extensive interviews and focus groups with cisgender-heterosexual men and cisgender-lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, Thinking Cis examines how cisgender people make sense of gender, attractions to transgender women, and the murders of Black trans women. It also analyzes how the social construction of cisness shapes how we think about race, gender, sexuality and who we consider worthy of living. alithia zamantakis pushes readers to rethink prominent understandings of anti-trans violence and in doing so, argues that it is not simply transphobia that gives rise to murders of trans women but a fear and hatred for what it means to love and desire transgender women.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538177624
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/28/2023
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

alithia zamantakis, PhD is a sociologist and health scientist at Northwestern University’s Institute of Sexual & Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Her work can be found in Sexualities, Journal of School Health, Sociological Inquiry, AIDS & Behavior, Annual Review of Psychology, Liberation School, and more.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. “A Natural Woman”: How Cissexism, Classism, and White Supremacy Permeate the Desire for a “Natural” Look in a Woman

Chapter 2. “That’s a Guy”: Cissexism and Anti-Blackness in the Viewing of Trans Women’s Photos

Chapter 3. Cisgender Women Thinking Cis

Chapter 4. “They Don’t Kill Us Because They Hate Us. They Kill Us Because They Hate What It Means To Love Us”: Desire And Symbolic Violence

Chapter 5. “That Shit Would Make Me Mad As Hell, and I Might Just Kill You”: Cis-Het Men & Cis-Lesbian, Bisexual, & Queer (LBQ) Women’s Discourse Regarding The Murders Of Black Trans Women

Conclusion: What to Do About Cis-ness?

Appendix 1. Methods and Methodologies

Appendix 2. Participant Demographics

Appendix 3. Additional Participant Demographics and Focus Group Participant Demographics

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