Description: Cisgender is the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. Utilizing unplumbed archives and fresh interviews, Perry Zurn offers a critical history of the term from the 1990s to the present, deftly defamiliarizing and reimagining cis at the same time.
Review Quotes: "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, coauthor of, A Black Queer History of the United States
"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