Excluded
Subtitle: Making feminist and queer movements more inclusive
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley CA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781580055048
Copyright date: 2013
Description: "While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality--sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities. In each case, exclusion is based on the premise that certain ways of being gendered or sexual are more legitimate, natural, or righteous than others. As a trans woman, bisexual, and femme activist, Julia Serano has spent much of the last ten years challenging various forms of exclusion within feminist and queer/LGBTQ movements. In Excluded, she chronicles many of these instances of exclusion and argues that marginalizing others often stems from a handful of assumptions that are routinely made about gender and sexuality. These false assumptions infect theories, activism, organizations, and communities--and worse, they enable people to vigorously protest certain forms of sexism while simultaneously ignoring and even perpetuating others. Serano advocates for a new approach to fighting sexism that avoids these pitfalls and offers new ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, and sexism that foster inclusivity rather than exclusivity."--
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 1; title: 1. A word about words
pagenum: 8; label: Part 1:
title: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN; title: 2. On the outside looking in
pagenum: 22; title: 3. On being a woman
pagenum: 37; title: 4. Margins
pagenum: 40; title: 5. Trans feminism : there's no conundrum about it
pagenum: 43; title: 6.  Reclaiming femininity
pagenum: 48; title: 7. Three strikes and I'm out
pagenum: 70; title: 8. Dating
pagenum: 75; title: 9. Bisexuality and binaries revisited
pagenum: 81; title: 10. How to be an ally to trans women
pagenum: 99; title: 11. Performance piece
pagenum: 105; label: Part 2:
title: NEW WAYS OF SPEAKING; title: 12. Perversion of "the personal is political"
pagenum: 110; title: 13. Homogenizing versus holistic views of gender and sexuality
pagenum: 138; title: 14. How double standards work
pagenum: 169; title: 15. Myriad double standards
pagenum: 200; title: 16. Fixed versus holistic perspectives
pagenum: 216; title: 17. Expecting heterogeneity
pagenum: 229; title: 18. Challenging gender entitlement
pagenum: 239; title: 19. Self-examining desire and embracing ambivalence
pagenum: 257; title: 20. Recognizing invalidations
pagenum: 263; title: 21. Balancing acts
pagenum: 281; label: NOTES
pagenum: 300