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Female Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposing the origins and harmful effects of transgender ideology on the lives of women and children today as a continuation of female erasure and silencing. This anthology comes at a time when gender identity politics and profits from an emerging medical transgenderism industry for children, teens, and adults inhibit our ability to have meaningful discussions about sex, gender, changing laws that have provided sex-based protections for women and girls, and the re-framing of language referring to females as a distinct biological class. Standing strongly against gender stereotypes, female oppression, and the sexual violence prevalent in all levels of society, women's voices celebrate their lives and examine their struggles through articles, essays, firsthand accounts, and verse. Lesbian feminists, political feminists, spiritual feminists, heterosexual-womanist women, mothers, scholars, attorneys, poets, medical and mental health professionals, educators, environmentalists, and detransitioning women all boldly vocalize their unique perspectives and universal experiences. The contributors to Female Erasure know that their views are controversial, and many people will oppose their work. But they refuse to be silenced by critics, striving instead toward deep, meaningful discussion with readers about the biases of modern society and the future of women's rights.… (más)
“If the vocal trans majority had not chosen to focus their energy on re-defining women in their image, and instead proudly claimed themselves to be gender non-conforming men …
“If they had not insisted on erasing our biology or their own in order to validate their gender identity, and instead acknowledged themselves as males who simply choose to adopt and express a gender stereotypical feminine appearance.
“If they had not bullied themselves into female spaces and worked to make illegal our private spaces, and instead showed themselves to be true allies of women by respecting and protecting our needs.
“If they allowed themselves to feel even a fraction of empathy that they fully expect from women and girls toward their needs.
“If they had not focused their anger at women for the actual violence they experience at the hands of other males.”
Ruth Barrett, in Female Erasure (p.481)
And from one of the essays:
“[Gender identity] holds that ‘feeling like a woman’ (whatever that means) is the same as being a woman. It’s a callous disregard for our lifetime of oppression, the limits placed upon our participation in society, the ever-present threat of rape we face. It’s an erasure of the quarter of our lives we spend managing bleeding and pain, the constant diligence we must employ to prevent pregnancy. It’s a gross insensitivity of the staggering percentage of us who are victims of sexual assault, starting in childhood. We face these realities because we have female bodies and because of how men treat people who inhabit such bodies. There exists no fashion choice nor inner angst that can bring men closer to this experience.”
“It takes a great deal of male privilege to ‘choose’ your gender, as if gender weren’t a set of obligations and proscriptions designed to keep women physically, emotionally, and financially handicapped.”
“[My transgender husband] likes to complain that I don’t recognize him as a woman, something he sees as a great offense. But the iron is that he does not recognize me as a woman. … My biology is not irrelevant. My experience cannot be duplicated by trying on my clothes.”
from “Destruction of a Marriage: My Husband’s Descent into Transgenderism,” by Sharon Thrace. in Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett. ( )
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In deepest gratitude to my beloved mother, Florence Bienenfeld (1929-2016), who taught me how to tend, advocate, and protect what is sacred. Mom, you raised an Amazon.
To Chava, Mother of the Living, and her older sister Lillith, who were willing to risk the loss of a man-made "paradise" for full female autonomy.
To Mary Daly and Andrea Dworkin (of blessed memory), Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys for refusing to be silenced and for speaking out on behalf of all of us.
To the workers, craftswomen, workshop presenters, performers, attendees, Lisa Vogel and staff of The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, who for 40 years provided the space for us to vision and experience the possibilities of female sovereign space to celebrate, educate, debate, and empower our diverse female tribes.
To our Granddaughters and Great Granddaughters. May you be blessed with the wisdom of your ancestors and foremothers, and remain courageous to claim and revel in your embodied female power.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In the beginning... was a very female era.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Female Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposing the origins and harmful effects of transgender ideology on the lives of women and children today as a continuation of female erasure and silencing. This anthology comes at a time when gender identity politics and profits from an emerging medical transgenderism industry for children, teens, and adults inhibit our ability to have meaningful discussions about sex, gender, changing laws that have provided sex-based protections for women and girls, and the re-framing of language referring to females as a distinct biological class. Standing strongly against gender stereotypes, female oppression, and the sexual violence prevalent in all levels of society, women's voices celebrate their lives and examine their struggles through articles, essays, firsthand accounts, and verse. Lesbian feminists, political feminists, spiritual feminists, heterosexual-womanist women, mothers, scholars, attorneys, poets, medical and mental health professionals, educators, environmentalists, and detransitioning women all boldly vocalize their unique perspectives and universal experiences. The contributors to Female Erasure know that their views are controversial, and many people will oppose their work. But they refuse to be silenced by critics, striving instead toward deep, meaningful discussion with readers about the biases of modern society and the future of women's rights.
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“If the vocal trans majority had not chosen to focus their energy on re-defining women in their image, and instead proudly claimed themselves to be gender non-conforming men …
“If they had not insisted on erasing our biology or their own in order to validate their gender identity, and instead acknowledged themselves as males who simply choose to adopt and express a gender stereotypical feminine appearance.
“If they had not bullied themselves into female spaces and worked to make illegal our private spaces, and instead showed themselves to be true allies of women by respecting and protecting our needs.
“If they allowed themselves to feel even a fraction of empathy that they fully expect from women and girls toward their needs.
“If they had not focused their anger at women for the actual violence they experience at the hands of other males.”
Ruth Barrett, in Female Erasure (p.481)
And from one of the essays:
“[Gender identity] holds that ‘feeling like a woman’ (whatever that means) is the same as being a woman. It’s a callous disregard for our lifetime of oppression, the limits placed upon our participation in society, the ever-present threat of rape we face. It’s an erasure of the quarter of our lives we spend managing bleeding and pain, the constant diligence we must employ to prevent pregnancy. It’s a gross insensitivity of the staggering percentage of us who are victims of sexual assault, starting in childhood. We face these realities because we have female bodies and because of how men treat people who inhabit such bodies. There exists no fashion choice nor inner angst that can bring men closer to this experience.”
“It takes a great deal of male privilege to ‘choose’ your gender, as if gender weren’t a set of obligations and proscriptions designed to keep women physically, emotionally, and financially handicapped.”
“[My transgender husband] likes to complain that I don’t recognize him as a woman, something he sees as a great offense. But the iron is that he does not recognize me as a woman. … My biology is not irrelevant. My experience cannot be duplicated by trying on my clothes.”
from “Destruction of a Marriage: My Husband’s Descent into Transgenderism,” by Sharon Thrace. in Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett. (