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Spectral Woman: Transfemininity and the Abolition of Gender [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 074535145X
  • ISBN-13: 9780745351452
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 074535145X
  • ISBN-13: 9780745351452
Unveils the radical feminine force to dismantle the oppressive structures of gender, class, and colonialism


'Cremin explores the relationship between theory and life with intelligence and wit' - Juliet Jacques

What if the feminine holds the power to undo the foundations of domination itself? In The Spectral Woman, the feminine is revealed as the antagonistic force capable of abolishing the rigid categories of sex and gender that sustain class exploitation, androcentrism, and repression. With bold, incisive arguments, this book explores the transformative potential of feminine jouissance—a force that unsettles identity thinking and offers a radical path toward emancipation.

Rejecting the myths of diversity, difference, and escapist individualism, Ciara Cremin confronts the illusions of liberal humanism, and the sacrifices demanded in the name of progress. Instead, she argues for a utopian feminine praxis that challenges the psychic impairments perpetuated by capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal systems.

In a world haunted by the specter of the trans-feminine figure, this work sheds light on the profound potential to decolonize the unconscious and reimagine a future beyond oppression. The Spectral Woman is a bold manifesto for those willing to interrogate the structures that bind us—and envision their abolition.

Arvustused

'Recover femininity. Negate gender. Abolish androcentrism. Realize communism. With her tour-de-force, Ciara Cremin shows us we can because we must' -- Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging 'Pithy, provocative, and probing, this book charts an emancipatory path via the creative and destabilizing negativity of the trans-femme specter. An engaging and lively read, with wide reaching implications' -- Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism 'Cremin brilliantly demonstrates the capitalist nature of gender identity. Her spectral woman haunts every dimension of Western self-satisfied consumerism, aggressively witty and ferociously lucid. A powerfully political contribution to trans studies, and a much-needed trans contribution to political theory' -- Mat Fournier, author of Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature 'We live in a world ruled by androcentrism: closed-off, competitive, case-hardened and yet always fearful about lacking something or other. It's no fun and it's killing us. What is to be undone? Ciara Cremin proposes a radical feminization of the world. Femininity is the spectre of negativity that haunts androcentrism. Femininity doesn't so much 'threaten' androcentrismwhat a dick-brained ideaas render it irrelevant. I recommend this book as a travel guide for adventures toward a no-dads world' -- McKenzie Wark, author of Reverse Cowgirl and Love and Money, Sex and Death

Acknowledgements

1. Handbag and Sickle

2. The Feminine Lure

3. How to be a Woman, Negatively

4. Force Femininity

5. Femininity and Phantasmagoria

6. Towards a Feminine Communism
Ciara Cremin lectures in Sociology at the University of Auckland. She is a critical and cultural theorist whose work diagnoses the socio-economic, cultural, and subjective condition of late capitalism, and the author of several books, including Man-Made Woman and The Future is Feminine.