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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
4 reviews
zombiezami's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Dysphoria, Sexism, Outing, Misogyny, Transphobia, Medical content, and Body shaming
Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Rape, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, and Murder
Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, Suicide, and Classism
stevia333k's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Outing, Hate crime, Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Murder, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Bullying, Colonisation, Sexism, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Classism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Racism, Body horror, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, and Body shaming
Moderate: Self harm
wimbleimble's review against another edition
4.75
I've heard others describe parts of the book (in particular the last chapter) as invalidating of non-binary people, but I would disagree with this reading. Her ultimate conclusion, with regards to rejecting gender entitlement, I think rather speaks to the opposite, and to embracing all varieties of gender variant peoples and listening to their perspectives. I feel what she is instead criticising is valuing any gender identity over another, on the basis of it being subversive. This is admittedly something I have never encountered (though I have observed the opposite), and so it feels like a bit of a non-issue, though my experience is quite limited in this regard, due to my limited time in queer/trans spaces, and also due to the fact that the spaces I do have experiences with are probably vastly different to those that Serano wrote about in 2007.
But yeah, it's a really valuable work, and I'm going to be thinking about a lot of it for a while to come. Perhaps forever, considering my circumstances.
Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Hate crime, Transphobia, Sexism, Homophobia, and Mental illness
ebmaher's review against another edition
4.0
Serano is a likable and capable companion throughout. As a former gender studies major, there was much I was familiar with, but I particularly appreciated Serano’s framing of oppositional sexism and her critique of queer culture’s and queer studies’s dismissal of femininity. A useful text for understanding where terfs come from and (on a clear and well-argued level) why they’re so wrong.
Moderate: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Homophobia, Hate crime, Death, and Biphobia
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