by Heidi Yeandle, Swansea University Another year, and another new batch of undergraduates to welcome to the world of Gender Studies. For the third consecutive year I am leading seminars for the introductory Approaches to Gender in English Literature module at Swansea University. This year, once again, the syllabus has been revamped, and the…
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Three objections to the language of cissexuality
by Marina Strinkovsky Note: throughout this piece I refer to transsexuality, transsexual persons, cissexuality, and cissexual persons. This is for reason of uniformity & brevity only and does not indicate a different analysis of transgender and cisgender. 1. According to the theory of intersectionality as originally conceived by Crenshaw in 1989, an indispensable component of…