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Gender Hurts

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A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

Gender Hurts

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Gender Hurts book

A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
BySheila Jeffreys
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 30 April 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315778266
Pages 224
eBook ISBN 9781315778266
Subjects Health and Social Care, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Jeffreys, S. (2014). Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315778266

ABSTRACT

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of the legitimacy of these rights.

 

This provocative and controversial book explores the consequences of these changes and offers a feminist perspective on the ideology and practice of transgenderism, which the author sees as harmful. It explores the effects of transgenderism on the lesbian and gay community, the partners of people who transgender, children who are identified as transgender and the people who transgender themselves, and argues that these are negative. In doing so the book contends that the phenomenon is based upon sex stereotyping, referred to as 'gender' – a conservative ideology that forms the foundation for women's subordination. Gender Hurts argues for the abolition of ‘gender’, which would remove the rationale for transgenderism.

 

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, feminism and feminist theory and gender studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|22 pages

The construction of transgenderism

chapter 2|22 pages

Transgenderism and feminism

chapter 3|22 pages

Doing transgender: really hurting

chapter 4|21 pages

‘A gravy stain on the table’: women in the lives of men who transgender

chapter 5|22 pages

Women who transgender: an antidote to feminism?

chapter 6|19 pages

Gender eugenics: the transgendering of children

chapter 7|20 pages

A clash of rights: when gender is inscribed in the law

chapter 8|21 pages

Women’s space and the transgender challenge

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