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Series:   Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory

Nonbinary

A Feminist Autotheory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2023

Stephanie D. Clare
Stephanie D. Clare
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University of Washington

Summary

This autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement between 'woman' and 'nonbinary' is possible, affectively and politically. In fact, a nonbinary structure of feeling has been central in the history of feminist thought, such as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949). This structure of feeling is not antifeminist but indexical of a desire for a form of embodiment and relationality beyond binary sex and gender. Finally, the Element provides a partial defense of nonbinary gender identity by tracing the development of the term in online spaces of the early 2000s. While it might be tempting to read its development as symptomatic of the forms of selfhood reproduced in (neo)liberal, racialized platform capitalism, this reading is too simplistic because it misses how the term emerged within communities of care.
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nonbinary gendergender-critical feminismtransgendertrans social mediaSimone de Beauvoir
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Series: Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory
Online ISBN: 9781009278645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 01 June 2023

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