For centuries, feminism has been built as a movement to do justice to women, and until recently, from the female perspective. But it is an unfinished movement, which usually excludes, from some of its aspects, working, black and trans women. This book, from one of the most prominent and recognized voices of trans activism, Julia Serano, within American feminism, contributes to alleviating this absence.
From a transfeminine perspective, the author analyzes sex, gender and identity, sexism, cross-dressing or "male privilege", as well as transphobia and transmisogyny, among many other topics. It offers a comprehensive and essential description of what it means to be a trans woman within a patriarchal society, and what a trans life is as such. Whipping Girl is a necessary text, an inescapable reference that is born in American trans activism and that crosses all feminist thought. This book shows that without the recognition of the trans community, sometimes forgotten in the feminist movement and always in the heteronormative and patriarchal system, there will be no justice.
At first, she crossdressed secretively, but she eventually started identifying herself openly as a "male crossdresser." Serano attended her first support group for crossdressers in 1994 while she lived in Kansas. In 1998, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she met her wife, and around then, she began identifying as not only a crossdresser but also transgender and bigender. In 2001, she began medically transitioning and identifying as a trans woman.
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