TY - JOUR
T1 - Trans (gender) trouble
AU - LeMaster, Benny
AU - Stephenson, Megan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 National Communication Association.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this essay, we tease out and implicate what we term the queer (cissexist) theoretical imagination suggesting an incommensurability of sorts between that of queer theory and that of trans subjectivity. The incommensurability renders a reductive framing of transness, in cissexist terms, that privilege transgression (often of a superficial sort) of gender over basic trans, transgender, and transsexual survival and wellness. In the end, we encourage nontrans scholars to theorize, in greater detail, the queerness of nontransness and the material means by which cissness secures its hegemonic cultural power.
AB - In this essay, we tease out and implicate what we term the queer (cissexist) theoretical imagination suggesting an incommensurability of sorts between that of queer theory and that of trans subjectivity. The incommensurability renders a reductive framing of transness, in cissexist terms, that privilege transgression (often of a superficial sort) of gender over basic trans, transgender, and transsexual survival and wellness. In the end, we encourage nontrans scholars to theorize, in greater detail, the queerness of nontransness and the material means by which cissness secures its hegemonic cultural power.
KW - gender
KW - queer theory
KW - transgender studies
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U2 - 10.1080/14791420.2021.1907851
DO - 10.1080/14791420.2021.1907851
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107875684
SN - 1479-1420
VL - 18
SP - 190
EP - 195
JO - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
JF - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -