... people, given the deeply gendered nature of the language. We see no easy solution to this complex problem of language, nationalism, and identity. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 gender binary trans* identities language frontier Icelandic language Icelandic nationalism The...

...Susan W. Woolley Abstract In K–12 schools, practices of dividing students by biological sex or gender into binary categories limit possibilities for students' identification and representation. Dividing students according to their socially recognized sex or gender reinforces the perceived stability...

... an umbrella term that denotes either historical indigenous constructions of gender that exist outside colonial normative binaries or contemporary indigenous people who reclaim/enact these roles within their local communities. The collection appears to privilege the use of the term two-spirit (even...

.../female binary is declared foundational to creation. In Genesis 2, we learn that this binary is not innocent, that however much the woman is like the man, the man, in telling the story, has allotted precedence to himself. In Genesis 3, male precedence is depicted as affirmed by God in a way that ties it...

...Arielle A. Concilio Abstract Like transgender studies, literary translation has historically suffered marginalization within the academy and has only recently become established. The marginalization of both, it seems, stems from rigid binaries—namely, the binaries of male/female and man/woman in...

...Tre Wentling Abstract There are an increasing number of university students who express a fluid gender embodiment and identity, resisting binary gender categories as well as binary transgender categories. The use of gender-neutral, as well as third-person plural pronouns, disrupts linguistic gender...

... example of the backlash that a black cisgender- and queer-identified woman received for coordinating a transgender-focused event, the article interrogates the ways in which the cisgender/transgender binary, pervasive in trans studies and trans organizing, counterintuitively reinforces the racialized...

...” expressions of transgender identity, without interrogating the conceptual baggage (such as homo-trans and cis-trans binaries) associated with the transgender category. In the Indian context, this process bolsters the long-standing and continuing (post)colonial construction of hierarchies of scale between...

... often problematic, practices of data collection and analysis. The authors believe that attending to the needs of those who do not conform to a binary gender system requires analyzing the ways in which epidemiology research produces and reifies the gender system itself. In order to understand the...

..., and the resistance to the binary sex/gender system. It also addresses the politics of translating queer in the European context, showing how transfeminism is a critique of Anglo white queer theory and its capacity for disembodiment. The postporn movement—a distinctive feature of Spanish transfeminism...

..., coined the term Jane Crow , which critiqued the simultaneous structural and affective impacts of white supremacy and male supremacy. These hegemonies divided individuals into binary categories of race and gender, categories that were naturalized and violently upheld. Murray lived on the margins of these...

...Damien Pascal Domenack Abstract In The Soul of the Stranger , Joy Ladin centers nonbinary gender expression in the first chapter of Genesis. Ladin articulates the opportunity for nonbinary gender categories by moving beyond the creation of the binary and focusing on Adam (humanity), who represents...

... that resist the binary of resistance and compliance, to imagine otherly. The author draws on black trans studies, black feminist theory, and black cultural and media studies to articulate how this film as a unique and crucial moment of black trans cultural production also offers us a key moment in...

... which the dysphoric body that is assigned female at birth may occupy a third space outside the gender binary. This article puts Acker's writing on the Pirate in dialog with Georges Bataille's figure of the Acéphale to explore the system of knowledge that comes from this subject—one whose articulation is...

... geopolitical binary pitting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea against the Republic of Korea—is faced with bodies in transition and resorts to anatomical determinism for the sake of national defense and (re)production. This practice of coerced body mutilation violates one's right to self-determination...

... handful of catalogers to revise the new instructions so that binary gender was not encoded into the metadata of library records. This paper outlines the developments, results, and implications of this work. This means that a local cataloging community can determine the terms they want to use for...

... that the law does not recognize the specificity of the transvestite identity or its patent inequality, and it reintroduces the binary man/woman categories because it is capable of sanctioning only on the basis of a general population and within a liberal framework of state recognition. In this article...

... compel us to consider processes of exclusion past and present. Yet it seems that historians had barely begun to scratch the surface of 1970s feminist history before an ever-evolving set of binary characterizations started to eclipse feminisms' multivocal and multivalent complexities. How did “1970s...

... human physical variations—Genesis 1 lays the foundation for the gender binary. Actually, the first stone of the gender binary was laid at the beginning of creation, when God, distinguishing light from darkness, creates the first binary: “When God began to create heaven and earth—the earth being unformed...

... definition. But much depends upon how the expression trans people is itself defined. If it is defined as “those who violate gender norms,” or as “those who are problematically positioned with respect to the gender binary,” then a very general account of the nature of transphobia is immediately...