cisfemininity

cisfemininity

English

Etymology

cis- +‎ femininity

Noun

cisfemininity (countable and uncountable, plural cisfemininities)

1. The quality of being cisfeminine.
   • 2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered pages:

     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; […]

   • 2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered pages:

     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.

   • 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:

     Shikyūkei 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cisfemininity.

Coordinate terms

• transfemininity