Queering the Trans: Gender and sexuality binaries in Icelandic Trans, Queer, and Feminist communities ...

• Main Authors: Josephson, Jyl, Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður, Sigurðardóttir, Svandís Anna
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Rutgers University 2016
• Subjects: Feminist activists; Gender equality; Gender order; Queer activists; Trans activists; Feminism > Iceland; Gender expression; Sex role; Gay rights > Iceland; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t3qn68th; https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/esploro/outputs/acceptedManuscript/991031549989604646

Activists in feminist, queer, and trans movements share in common a critique of the existing gender order. Yet activists may have different understandings of what is wrong with existing gender arrangements, and different understandings of what might be required to establish greater social equality. Using data from interviews with activists in the feminist, queer, and trans movements in Iceland, this paper looks at the ways that gender equality and the gender binary is understood by individuals who identify with feminist, queer, and/or trans activism, and some of their shared and conflicting critiques of the existing gender order. ...