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Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

2025/4/20
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Talia Mae Bettcher: 本书探讨了跨性别压迫与性别歧视、异性恋霸权和种族主义之间的关系，以及去殖民分析如何帮助我们理解跨性别压迫。我发展了一种新的亲密性和距离理论——人际空间理论，来解释跨性别压迫和性别焦虑。该理论认为，所有感官和话语互动都存在亲密和距离的维度，而这些维度是由人际边界所界定的。通过分析日常生活中我们如何协商人际空间，我们可以揭示各种暴力结构。我批判了基于类别的压迫模型，因为它无法充分解释跨性别者所面临的压迫，并且忽略了压迫的复杂性和多重性。我主张从社会实践和暴力结构的角度来分析压迫，而不是简单地将压迫归因于特定的类别。我还批判了“错误的身体”理论，因为它过于强调身体，而忽略了文化和社会因素。我提出“物理人格”的概念，该概念包含适当的和亲密的两种外观，以整合不同类型的跨性别体验。最后，我论证了主流人际空间体系的殖民性，以及它如何通过将身体种族化和文化化来延续殖民项目。 Sarah Tyson: 作为访谈者，我没有提出核心论点，而是引导Bettcher阐述其理论，并就其理论的各个方面提出问题，例如人际空间理论、对基于类别的压迫模型的批判、对“错误的身体”理论的批判以及对主流人际空间体系殖民性的分析。

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What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolonial analysis help us understand trans oppression? How are the relatively recent concepts of person, self, and subject implicated in these forms of oppression? And what theorizations are already available within trans communities for thinking through this all? 

In Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy) (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025), Talia Mae Bettcher develops a new theory of intimacy and distance to show how structures of appearing—as well as liminal experiences of appearance—can help us understand trans oppression and gender dysphoria in new ways. This new theory of interpersonal spatiality also shows how we can build worlds otherwise, thinking about connections and relations in ways foreclosed by many of the currently dominate accounts of gender and identity.

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