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Becoming a Woman Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence 1st Edition

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Full Title

Becoming a Woman Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence 1st Edition

Author(s)

Megan Burke

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781509562008, 9781509561995, 9781509561988, 9781509566310

Publisher

Polity

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary, global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to “gender-critical” mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir’s account of becoming a woman in The Second Sex to advance and justify trans exclusionary positions. Through a careful examination and application of Beauvoir’s philosophical and political commitments, Becoming a Woman compellingly explores the significance of her notion of becoming as not only affirmative of trans women, but also as an ethical demand to affirm trans possibilities. More than a reply to gender-critical readings of Beauvoir, this book develops an original, Beauvoirian ethics of gender affirmation offering that show why we ought to challenge trans exclusion and anti-trans movements.