Becoming a Woman

This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary, global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to ""gender-critical” mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir''s account of becoming a woman inThe Second Sexto advance and justify trans exclusionary positions. Through a careful examination andapplication ofBeauvoir''s philosophical and political commitments,Becoming a Womancompellingly explores the significance of her notion of becoming as not only affirmative of trans women, but also as an ethical demand to affirm trans possibilities. More than a reply to gender-critical readings of Beauvoir, this book develops an original, Beauvoirian ethics of gender affirmation offering that show why we ought to challenge trans exclusion and anti-trans movements.