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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
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ebmaher's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Julia Serano says she wrote this book for many reasons, but mainly to create the book she would have wanted to read as a young trans woman, and I think that’s really evident throughout. It’s both the books strength — it’s remarkably readable, personal, and incisive — and it’s weakness — Serano even says in the preface to the second edition that she wishes she’d have been able to move beyond her own experience to consider race, class, nationality, etc. create different trans experiences.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Homophobia, Hate crime, Death, and Biphobia
Pretty much all content warnings are in the context of calling out and explaining discrimination.
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