Myriad Double Standards

So last week, my new book, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly – you can read the review here. It is generally positive and I am pretty happy with it! However, there is one line in the review that I feel misconstrues what I was trying to say in the book. Namely, the reviewer describes my supposed ‘denial of the existence of a “gender system”’ and how it ‘flies in the face of much social research.’ [pullquote]when cisgender radical feminists talk about the patriarchy, their model includes traditional sexism, but generally not cissexism/transphobia and this omission enables them to completely ignore societal cissexism, and to mischaracterize trans people as “male oppressors”[/pullquote]I could imagine that people who read that review without having read the whole book might presume that I am denying that gender norms, assumptions, stereotypes, etc., often work together in a coordinated

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