TABLE OF CONTENTS
624 Pages!
48 Contributors
About the Cover
Dedication
Acknowledgements
A Note About Language
Foreword by Germaine Greer
Introduction by Ruth Barrett
Six Billion Genders ~ Ruth Barrett
SECTION ONE: BIOLOGICAL ERASURE BY GENDER IDEOLOGY
Gyn-ocide Revisited ~ Ruth Barrett
Quote from Gender Hurts ~ Shiela Jeffreys
Chapter One: The First Sex: In The Beginning, We Were All Created Female
Monika Sjöö & Barbara Mor
Chapter Two: The End Of Gender: Revolution, Not Reform
Rachael Ivey
Chapter Three: The Difference Between Sex and Gender and Why It Matters
Kathy Scarbrough
Chapter Four: Female Erasure, Reverse Sexism, and the Cis Theory Of Gender
Elizabeth Hungerford
Chapter Five: Transgender Rights: The Elimination of the Human Rights of Women
GallusMag
Chapter Six: “Transgender Equality Verses Women’s Equality: A Clash Of Rights?
Written Evidence Submitted To The Transgender Equality Inquiry
Shiela Jeffreys
Chapter Seven: An African-American Woman Reflects On The Transgender Movement
Nuriddeen Knight
Chapter Eight: Female Erasure: A Sampler
Ava Park
Chapter Nine: My Disservice To My Transgender Patients
Kathy Mandigo, M.D.
Chapter Ten: Exiles In Their Own Flesh: A Psychotherapist Speaks
Lane Anderson
Chapter Eleven: In The Absence Of The Sacred: The Marketing of Medical Transgenderism and the Survival of the Natural Child
Mary Ceallaigh and Jennifer Bilek
Chapter Twelve: Gender Ideology Harms Children - A statement from the American College of Pediatricians
SECTION TWO: RE-FRAMING REALITY AND THE LANGUAGE OF ERASURE
Quote ~ from the Enmetena & Ukukagina Cones
Quote ~ from Hypotaxis
Chapter Thirteen: On Language & Erasure
Hypotaxis
Chapter Fourteen: Eve Was Framed
Ruth Barrett
Chapter Fifteen: Transgenderism and the Power of Naming
Julia Long
Chapter Sixteen: The Erasure of Lesbians
Alix Dobkin and Sally Tatnall
Chapter Seventeen: Mothers’ Day: A Story
Joan F. Archive
Chapter Eighteen: Patriarchy In Drag: Sexual Imperialism In Africa, and Delusional Revisionism in the African-American Community
Luisah Teish
Chapter Nineteen: Pseudoscience Supplants Female Athletes' Olympic Dreams
Kathy Crocco
Chapter Twenty: Open Letter To The Midwives Alliance Of North America Regarding The Recent Revisions To The Organization’s Standing Core Competencies
Mary Lou Singleton and many Midwives
SECTION THREE: THE “VIOLENT” FEMALE BODY
Erasure Quotes
“You Say” ~ by Ruth Barrett
Twenty-One: The Period Poem
Dominique Christina
Twenty-Two: A Revolutionary Love Letter To Menarche
Monica Asencio
Mother
Patricia Monaghan
Song For Menopause
Ila Suzanne Gray
Twenty-Three: The Girls and the Grasses
Lierre Keith
SECTION FOUR: A ROOM OF OUR OWN
Quote ~ by Ruth Barrett
Quote ~ by Kathy Crocco
Twenty-Four: Problem and Solution? Transwomen’s Access To Private Women-Only Spaces
Elizabeth Hungerford
Twenty-Five: Why Women’s Spaces Are Critical To Feminist Autonomy
Patricia McFadden
Twenty-Six: Ground Zero: The Clash Of Gender Identity Protections And Women's Space
Cathy Brennan
Twenty-Seven: Queer Theory’s Suppression Of Feminist Consciousness
Carol Downer
Twenty-Eight: The Attack On Female Sovereign Space In Pagan Community
Ruth Barrett
Twenty-Nine: The Undoing Of A Unique Sisterhood
Mara Lake
Thirty: Transparent: Spitting On Michfest’s Grave
Phonaesthica
Thirty-One: #ApologizeToMichigan
Sara St. Martin Lynne
SECTION FIVE: PERSONAL STORIES FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Quote ~ by Ruth Barrett
Quote ~ by Karen Cayer
Thirty-Two: Social Work Professor Speaks Out On Behalf Of Her FtM Autistic Daughter
Dr. Kathleen “Kelly” Levinstein
Thirty-Three: I Am Not A Waste Of A Woman
Max Robinson
Thirty-Four: Reclaiming Female/Speaking Back
Crash
Thirty-Five: The Goddess of Autotomy
Devorah Zahav
Thirty-Six: Censored Conversations in the Hallways of Academia
Double XX Howl
Thirty-Seven: Destruction Of A Marriage: My Husband's Descent Into Transgenderism
Sharon Thrace
Thirty-Eight: Gas Mark Six
Jackie Mearns
Thirty-Nine: “Neighbor Boy”
Temple Ardinger
Forty: The Bathroom
Falcon River
SECTION SIX: RESISTANCE TO DELUSION
Quote ~ by Cathy Brennan
Choices Not Taken ~ Ruth Barrett
Quote ~ by Parker Wolf (Big Boo Butch)
Quote ~ by Mary Daly
Forty-One: Gender, Patriarchy, And All That Jazz
Mary Lou Singleton
Forty-Two: The Surgical Suite: Modern-Day Closet For Today’s Teen Lesbian
Marie Verite
Forty-Three: Milwaukee Pride Parade strips Veteran Lesbian Activist Miriam
Ben-Shalom of Grand Marshall Honors, and a Personal Statement from Ben-Shalom
Forty-Four: Into the Mind of Kosilek: Grace’s Daughter – A Book Review
GallusMag
Forty-Five: The WANTED Project
Nedra Johnson
Forty-Six: The Universe is Her Form
Vajra Ma
Forty-Seven: Radical Embodiment And The Reproduction Of Resistance
Mary Ceallaigh
Forty-Eight: Yes All Women
Sara St. Martin Lynn
A Creed For Free Women
Elsa Gidlow
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