{"product_id":"9781517902575-beyond-personhood","title":"Beyond Personhood","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Essay in Trans Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eAn essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, this book offers a bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/i\u003e provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Until now, trans experience has overwhelmingly been understood in terms of two reductive frameworks: trans people are either “trapped in the wrong body” or they are oppressed by the gender binary. Both accounts misgender large trans constituencies while distorting their experience, and neither can explain the presentation of trans people as make-believers and deceivers or the serious consequences thereof. In \u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood, \u003c\/i\u003eTalia Mae Bettcher demonstrates how taking this phenomenon seriously affords a new perspective on trans oppression and trans dysphoria-one involving liminal states of “make-believe” that bear positive possibilities for self-recognition and resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Undergirding this account is Bettcher’s groundbreaking theory of interpersonal spatiality-a theory of intimacy and distance that requires rejection of the philosophical concepts of person, self, and subject. She argues that only interpersonal spatiality theory can successfully explain trans oppression and gender dysphoria, thus creating new possibilities for thinking about connection and relatedness.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e An essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intersectional trans feminism that illuminates transphobic, sexist, heterosexist, and racist oppressions, situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56274623299958,"sku":"9781517902575","price":23.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38204518.jpg?v=1767946112","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781517902575-beyond-personhood","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}