Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
About a decade ago, the feminist community came up with the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) as a way to halt the default colonization of Radical Feminism and feminism itself by TERFs (and this move by feminists is, of course, claimed to be incredibly insulting). Now, under a wave of new awareness of the hate group hiding among them, feminism is becoming more vocal about its recrimination of TERFs. Old TERFs and TERF allies like Sue Hyde and Gloria Steinem have openly recanted their TERF rhetoric and other TERFs, like Max Feldman, came out as trans. For more than 40 years, TERFs have been bullying both trans people and the feminist community itself. Nothing I cover in this response to the recent uptick in TERF histrionics – embodied by the publishing of Sheila Jeffrys’ Gender Hurts by Routledge – is particularly new. Since the 1970s, both trans people and
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning feminism and gender politics. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
“Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with feminism and gender politics. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for transgender identity and history.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community25%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community18%
- 4Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication14%
- 5Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life8%
- 6Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community8%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 260%
- 340%
- 440%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
Academic framings in this topic
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Documented circulation and reception
5 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2014. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Shows what has actually been checkedDocumented references over time
Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveTERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series | The TransAdvocate
Introduction: 8/11/14
Critical of “Gender Critical:” Part V of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series | The TransAdvocate
Introduction: 8/11/14
TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: Part IV of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series | The TransAdvocate
Introduction: 8/11/14
Debunking TERF Essentialism: Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series | The TransAdvocate
Introduction: 8/11/14
Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series | The TransAdvocate
Introduction: 8/11/14
Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.
Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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