Cisgender

"This is the definitive book on the genealogies, uses, and panics that inform and animate the circulation of the term cis-. With engrossing prose and an expansive archive, Cisgender offers readers the opportunity to reflect on what was, what is, and what could have been. A must-read for anyone interested in gender and politics!" - C. Riley Snorton, co-author of A Black Queer History of the United States

"With humor and tenderness, Perry Zurn challenges readers to revisit the complexity of a maligned, misunderstood, and undertheorized term. Reaching across and beyond trans and queer community spaces, Zurn offers conceptual and historical breadth to explore the lives of gender variant and conforming peoples, systems of power, and the many possibilities for connection betwixt, between, and alongside one another in shared struggle." - Andrea J. Pitts, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo

"Perry Zurn’s Cisgender gives voice to that important moment in a minority discourse where the discourse turns back to critique the dominant frame that minoritizes it. But it does far more than that—it deconstructs the cis/trans binary, in a welcome way, to open new conceptual worlds within and between both terms. May it launch many productive conversations."  - Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History