Asexualities

Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-01477-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1006 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book’s impact and features new scholarship at the vanguard of the field.

While this edition includes some of the most-cited original chapters, it also features critical updates as well as new, innovative work by both up-and-coming and established scholars and activists from around the world. It brings in more global perspectives on asexualities, engages intersectionally with international formations of race and racialization, critiques global capital’s effects on identity and kinship, examines how digital worlds shape lived realities, considers posthuman becomings, experiments with the form of the manifesto, and imagines love and relation in ecologies that exceed and even supersede the human.

This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary book serves as a valuable resource for everyone—from those who are just beginning their critical exploration of asexualities to advanced researchers who seek to deepen their theoretical engagements with the field.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cerankowski, Kj

Milks, Megan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Beyond Sexuality, Beyond the Human

1. Sexuality is Over. Long Live Asexuality: Post-Sexuality in the Post-Post Era

2. Asexual Ecologies

3. Ace-ecologies: The Asexual Erotics of Loving Kin

Part II: Asexuality, Identity, and the Political Sphere

4. Radical Identity Politics: Asexuality and Contemporary Articulations of Identity

5. “There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship”: Asexuality’s Sinthomatics

6. “Jarek, Get on Tinder”: Anti-Nonsexual Slogans at Polish 2020 Abortion Protests

7. A Brief Manifesto Against Asexual Respectability Politics

Part III: A/sexologies: Measuring Desire

8. Asexual Desires? Mismeasures in the Sexual Sciences

9. Between the Bedroom and the Laboratory: Clinical Intimacies, Paraerotic Potential, and Therapeutic Excess

10. Deferred Desire: The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain

Part IV: Asexualities in Place and Space

11. Toward Asexual Geographies: void-publics and spaces of refusal

12. (SA)fe Sp(aces): Conjugality and Sex in Online South Asian Asexual Discourses

13. Erasure, Camouflage, Exceptionalism, and Cultural Criticism: Asexuality and Masculinity Threat

Part V: Reading Asexually

14. Subjective Limits of Imagination: Race, Gender, and Sex in the Archives

15. Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual/Crip Resistance in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus

16. “What to Call That Sport, the Neuter Human…”: Asexual Subjectivity in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People

17. Toward an Asexual Narrative Structure

Part VI: Asexual Kinship and Platonic Intimacies

18. Asexual Kinship: Capitalism, Reproduction, and an Imperiality of Asexuality

19. #Platonic Intimacy: Asian North American Asexualities and Their Fairytales

20. Girltalk: Reflections on Testosterone, A/sexuality, and Libido

Part VII: Ace Solidarities/Ace Futures

21. Asexuality and Disability: New Directions for Coalition Building

22. Toward an Ace & Aro Friendly Society: Reconstructing the Sexual Orientation Paradigm

23. Toward a Global Asexual Solidarity Beyond Identity

24. “Freedom Lover”: Blackness, Asexuality, Abolition

Coda - “Never Enough”: Then, Now, and Tomorrow

Über Autor(innen)

KJ Cerankowski is the author of Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming (2021). He is Associate Professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies at Oberlin College.

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (2021) and Slug and Other Stories (2021). They teach writing and gender studies at The New School and Pace University.