ISBN:
9780415714426
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (410 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Asexualities : Feminist and Queer Perspectives
DDC:
306.7
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume, the authors expand this definition of asexuality to account for the complexities of gender, race, disability, and medical discourse. Together, these essays challenge the ways in which we imagine gender and sexuality in relation to desire and sexual practice. Asexualities provides a critical reevaluati
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Asexuality? Why Now?; PART I Theorizing Asexuality: New Orientations; 1 Mismeasures of Asexual Desires; 2 Inhibition, Lack of Excitation, or Suppression: fMRI Pilot of Asexuality; 3 "There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship": Asexuality's Sinthomatics; PART II The Politics of Asexuality; 4 Radical Identity Politics: Asexuality and Contemporary Articulations of Identity; 5 Stunted Growth: Asexual Politics and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation
Description / Table of Contents:
6 On the Racialization of AsexualityPART III Visualizing Asexuality in Media Culture; 7 Spectacular Asexuals: Media Visibility and Cultural Fetish; 8 Aliens and Asexuality: Media Representation, Queerness, and Asexual Visibility; 9 Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual/Crip Resistance in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus; PART IV Asexuality and Masculinity; 10 "Why Didn't You Tell Me That I Love You?": Asexuality, Polymorphous Perversity, and the Liberation of the Cinematic Clown; 11 Masculine Doubt and Sexual Wonder: Asexually-Identified Men Talk About Their (A)sexualites
Description / Table of Contents:
PART V Health, Disability, and Medicalization12 Asexualities and Disabilities in Constructing Sexual Normalcy; 13 Asexuality and Disability: Mutual Negation in Adams v. Rice and New Directions for Coalition Building; 14 Deferred Desire: The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain; PART VI Reading Asexually: Asexual Literary Theory; 15 "What to Call That Sport, the Neuter Human . . . ": Asexual Subjectivity in Keri Hulme's The Bone People; 16 Toward an Asexual Narrative Structure; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
