{"product_id":"cistem-failure-marquis-bey-9781478018445","title":"Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender","description":"In \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marquis Bey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478018445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478018445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Marquis Bey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059077804287,"sku":"9781478018445","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26f0eace-e21c-44f3-b6d5-38c257ebddb0.jpg?v=1685056105","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cistem-failure-marquis-bey-9781478018445","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}