Sexual Difference
Emma Heaney talks about the social organization of the supposedly biologically derived terms of the sex binary into a hierarchy of persons and qualities. She speaks widely about the work that she and her colleagues are doing, drawing on a tradition of scholarship that includes the work of Luce Irigaray, Hortense Spillers, Cathy J. Cohen and others.\nEmma Heaney\xa0is a teacher, researcher, and writer living in Queens. Her first book, a study of the\xa0medicalization of trans femininity and the uptake of the diagnostic figure in works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy, is\xa0The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory\xa0(Northwestern, 2017). Her forthcoming second book,\xa0Feminism\xa0Against Cisness, is an edited collection of essays by Trans Studies scholars who use anti-colonial,\xa0Black, and Marxist feminist methods to address the many legacies of the historical emergence of\xa0the idea that assigned sex determines sexed experience. Her introduction for that collection,\xa0entitled \u201cSexual Difference Without Cisness\u201d provides the basis for this interview.\nImage: \xa9 2021 Saronik Bosu\nMusic used in promotional material: \u201cFlow\u201d by dustmotes\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies