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Asexualities Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition

Edited By KJ Cerankowski, Megan Milks Copyright 2024
    434 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    434 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction

    Megan Milks and KJ Cerankowski

    Part I: Beyond Sexuality, Beyond the Human

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

    Maria Markiewicz

    2. Asexual Ecologies

    Joela Jacobs and Nicole Seymour

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

    Ela Przybyło

    Part II: Asexuality, Identity, and the Political Sphere

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

    Erica Chu

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

    Kristian Kahn

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

    Anna Kurowicka

    7. A Brief Manifesto Against Asexual Respectability Politics

    Nathan Bernstein and Maximus Jenkins 

    Part III: A/sexologies: Measuring Desire

    8. Asexual Desires? Mismeasures in the Sexual Sciences

    Jacinthe Flore

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

    Alyson Spurgas

    10. Deferred Desire: The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain

    Christine Labuski

    Part IV: Asexualities in Place and Space

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

    Joe Jukes

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

    Yash Gupta

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

    Canton Winer

    Part V: Reading Asexually

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

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

    Cynthia Barounis

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

    Jana Fedtke

    17. Toward an Asexual Narrative Structure

    Elizabeth Hanna Hanson

    Part VI: Asexual Kinship and Platonic Intimacies

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

    Eunjung Kim

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

    Theresa Kenney

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

    [sarah] Cavar and Ulysses [Constance] Bougie

    Part VII: Ace Solidarities/Ace Futures

    21. Asexuality and Disability: New Directions for Coalition Building

    Kristina Gupta

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

    CJ Chasin

    23. Toward a Global Asexual Solidarity Beyond Identity

    Daniel Yo-Ling

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

    Ianna Hawkins Owen

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

    KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks

    Biography

    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.

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