{"product_id":"9781478015802","title":"Cistem Failure : Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Asterisk)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that \"matches\" one's sex---that is, to be cisgender---when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the The Powerpuff Girls to the greeting \"How ya mama'n'em?\" to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat as a category to hold the myriad ways that people who may or may not have undergone gender-affirmative interventions depart from gender alignment. At the same time, blackness, they contend, strikes at the heart of cisgender's invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49499857912035,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781478015802-1.jpg?v=1788387987","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/ja\/products\/9781478015802","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}