Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Despatches from the wrong side of history -- Let's talk about sex and babies : what's logical about biological sex? -- Feminist revolution now : what is the radical feminist stance on trans inclusion? -- The day the music dies : Michigan, myths and the ground zero of terfdom -- Abolition and the critical turn : critiquing gender-critical feminism -- Butch/ering the 'real man' : what is masculinity anyway? -- Always endangered, never extinct : what is butch lesbian identity? -- Butch voices and butch pride -- Queering 'female' masculinity -- Conclusion: Together from here to where.
Summary:
"Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' - the fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity. Transgender and trans rights movements are currently experiencing political backlash from within certain lesbian and lesbian feminist groups, resulting in a situation in which these two minority communities are frequently pitted against one another or perceived as diametrically opposed"--Publisher's description.
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