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Cis- and Transgender Identities: Beyond Habituation and the Search for Social Existence

  • Annemie Halsema (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleCis- and Transgender Identities: Beyond Habituation and the Search for Social Existence
ContributorAnnemie Halsema (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH10
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractElaborating on Vasterling’s articulation of a phenomenological notion of embodiment in Judith Butler’s work, Annemie Halsema, in her article, “Cis- and Transgender Identities: Beyond Habituation and the Search for Social Existence,” argues that Butler’s theory of gender performativity is a starting point in need of supplements. One of these supplements is the phenomenological notion of bodily habit formation, another is an account of psychic gender identity. Performativity is not only linguistic but also habitual. Prior to the awareness of assuming a gender identity, the individual repeats movements and forms a bodily memory. Because habit formation allows for variance, just like performativity, gender – both in the case of cis and in the case of trans – is variant. In order to account for the experiences of transgenders, merely considering gender constitution in terms of repetition of social norms and bodily habit, however, is not sufficient. Another element needs to be taken into consideration, the “psychic” gender, which is the gender a person identifies with.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
Contributors

Annemie Halsema

(author)
Vrije Universiteit

Annemie Halsema is Socrates Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and the Foundations of Humanism at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden University, and an associate professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She has written two books on Luce Irigaray (1998 and 2010) and has published edited volumes on Judith Butler’s work (2000 and 2021) and on feminism and Ricoeur (2016). She has also had articles published in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Women’s Health Reports, The American Journal of Bioethics, Hypatia, Études Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies.