ABSTRACT
Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography showcases a collection of narrative and autoethnographic research that unpacks the complexity of gender at its intersections, i.e. by ability, race, sexuality, religion, beauty, geography, spatiality, community, performance, politics, socio-economic status, education, and many other markers of difference.
The book focuses on gender as it is lived, chaperoned, and chaperones other social identity categories. It tells stories that reveal problematic gender binaries, promising gender futures, and everything in between—they ask us to rethink what we assume to be true, real, and normal about gender identity and expression. Each essay, written by both gender variant and cisgender scholars, explores cultural phenomena that create space for us to re-imagine, re-think, and create new ways of being.
This book will be useful for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional degree students, particularly in the fields of gender studies, qualitative methods, and communication theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|70 pages
Existence as Disruption
chapter |13 pages
Disrupting Compulsory Performances
chapter |18 pages
On Possibility
part Section II|56 pages
Identity Negotiation and Internal Struggles
part Section III|52 pages
The Erotic as a Site for Normative Disruption
chapter |14 pages
If Rigor is our Dream
chapter |18 pages
Gender Fucked
part Section IV|62 pages
Queering History, Imagining Futures