By Karli June Cerankowski,Megan Milks
ISBN-10: 0415714427
ISBN-13: 9780415714426
What is so radical approximately no longer having intercourse? to reply to this question, this choice of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing those who don't adventure sexual appeal. during this multidisciplinary quantity, the authors extend this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, incapacity, and scientific discourse. jointly, those essays problem the ways that we think gender and sexuality relating to wish and sexual perform. Asexualities provides a serious reevaluation of even the main radical queer theorizations of sexuality. Going past a choice for reputation of asexuality as a valid and legitimate sexual orientation, the authors provide a serious exam of a number of the so much basic ways that we categorize and index sexualities, wishes, our bodies, and practices.
As the 1st book-length number of severe essays ever produced concerning asexuality, this e-book serves as a foundational textual content in a growing to be box of research. It additionally goals to reshape the instructions of feminist and queer reviews, and to notably modify well known conceptions of intercourse and wish. together with devices addressing theories of asexual orientation; the politics of asexuality; asexuality in media tradition; masculinity and asexuality; healthiness, incapacity, and medicalization; and asexual literary idea, Asexualities may be of curiosity to students and scholars in sexuality, gender, sociology, cultural stories, incapacity stories, and media culture.
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