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Beyond Personhood

By Bettcher, Talia Mae

Beyond Personhood

By Bettcher, Talia Mae

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A bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Until now, trans experience has overwhelmingly been understood in terms of two reductive frameworks: trans people are either “trapped in the wrong body” or they are oppressed by the gender binary. Both accounts misgender large trans constituencies while distorting their experience, and neither can explain the presentation of trans people as make-believers and deceivers or the serious consequences thereof. In Beyond Personhood, Talia Mae Bettcher demonstrates how taking this phenomenon seriously affords a new perspective on trans oppression and trans dysphoria-one involving liminal states of “make-believe” that bear positive possibilities for self-recognition and resistance. Undergirding this account is Bettcher’s groundbreaking theory of interpersonal spatiality-a theory of intimacy and distance that requires rejection of the philosophical concepts of person, self, and subject. She argues that only interpersonal spatiality theory can successfully explain trans oppression and gender dysphoria, thus creating new possibilities for thinking about connection and relatedness.  An essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, Beyond Personhood offers an intersectional trans feminism that illuminates transphobic, sexist, heterosexist, and racist oppressions, situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2025-03-18
Publication Date:
2025-03-18
Publisher:
MNG University Presses
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1517902576
ISBN13:
9781517902575
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
426 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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