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Trans, Feminism:Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual: Winner of the 2017 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

Awkward-Rich, Cameron·2017·Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
DOI 10.1086/690914
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Trans and feminism, it seems, are caught in a continually reiterated conflict. Reading this conflict as being motivated by the desire for an integrated theory of gender that is undermined by the perhaps irresolvable political desires of each field, this essay is interested in how the expression of this failure of integration is articulated (on both “sides”) as a feeling of being annihilated and the displacement of these bad feelings onto the other. Rather than seeking new terms of resolution—and focusing, in particular, on how transmasculinity has increasingly posed an un- or misrecognized problem for imagining trans-inclusive feminisms—I excavate the “depressed transsexual” and develop this as a reading position from which to think through the possibility of living with the lack of integration, even if it does not feel good.

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  • Trans women must also deal with the added risk of both being seen as women and as failing to be so.

    “Cameron Awkward-Rich (2017) reminds us that 'trans women must also deal with the added risk of both being seen as women and as failing to be so (p. 836)'.”

    From The anti-feminism of anti-trans feminism (2023) · cites this paper as Cameron Awkward-Rich (2017)

  • Related forms of this double bind also structure the lives of crip women, queer women, and women of color.

    “He then adds, relying on 'antiracist, queer, and disability feminisms' to underline that 'related forms of this double bind also structure the lives of crip women, queer women, and women of color'”

    From The anti-feminism of anti-trans feminism (2023) · cites this paper as Awkward-Rich (2017)

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Authors
Awkward-Rich, C.
Affiliations
Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
Awkward-Rich, Cameron
Venue
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2017-06
Volume
42
Issue
4
Pages
819-841
ISSN
  • 0097-9740 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-6943
DOI
10.1086/690914
OpenAlex
W2616068241
Cited by
81
References
2
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
FWCI
5.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Signs (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
Keywords
transfeminism, transmasculinity, gender theory, feminist theory, reading positions

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