cisfemininity en · NOUN
Etymology
From cis- + femininity.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being cisfeminine.
But we do need to talk about ourselves: practicing "black trans-cis-terhood"— to use black transfeminist theorist Dora Santana's felicitous phrase—means understanding black queer cisfemininity on its own terms.
2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page:However, the act of critiquing cisnormativity inevitably presents the critic with a limited set of alternatives: one could argue that transmasculinity is as normal and regular as cismasculinity, cisfemininity, or transfemininity; […]
2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered pagesShikyūkei and chitsukei epitomise these traits of new spiritual culture by locating the part of the body most intimately associated with cisfemininity, a woman's sexual and reproductive organs, as the cause and remedy for the events of her life.
2021, Ellen Mann, "'A Woman's Happiness is Decided by Her Uterus!': Post-Feminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Female Body in Japanese 'Uterus-Type' and 'Vagina-Type' Spirituality", in Beyond Kawaii: Studying Japanese Femininities at Cambridge (Angelika Koch, Brigitte Steger, & Christopher Tso), page 73
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fr cis-fémininité (Translations) · pl ciskobiecość (Translations)