Asexualities

Feminist and Queer Perspectives

Author: Karli June Cerankowski
Secondary Author: Megan Milks
ISBN: 9780415714426

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 reevaluation of even the most radical queer theorizations of sexuality. Going beyond a call for acceptance of asexuality as a legitimate and valid sexual orientation, the authors offer a critical examination of many of the most fundamental ways in which we categorize and index sexualities, desires, bodies, and practices. As the first book-length collection of critical essays ever produced on the topic of a

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2014

Subjects: Psychology / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Gender Studies

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