Asexualities (eBook, ePUB)

Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Redaktion: Cerankowski, Karli June; Milks, Megan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality, an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. Addressing theories of asexual orientation and desire, media culture, masculinity, disability and medicalization, and literary theory, Asexualities will be of interest to scholars and students of sexuality, gender, sociology, cultural studies, and disability studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134692538
• Artikelnr.: 40823782

Autorenporträt

Karli June Cerankowski is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. Megan Milks is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Illinois College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Asexuality? Why Now? Megan Milks and Karli June
Cerankowski Part I: Theorizing Asexuality: New Orientations 1. Mismeasures
of Asexual Desires Jacinthe Flore 2. Inhibition, Lack of Excitation, or
Suppression: fMRI Pilot of Asexuality Nicole Prause and Carla Harenski 3.
"There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship": Asexuality's Sinthomatics
Kristian Kahn Part II: The Politics of Asexuality 4. Radical Identity
Politics: Asexuality and Contemporary Articulations of Identity Erica Chu
5. Stunted Growth: Asexual Politics and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation
Megan Milks 6. On the Racialization of Asexuality Ianna Hawkins Owen Part
III: Visualizing Asexuality in Media Culture 7. Spectacular Asexuals: Media
Visibility and Cultural Fetish Karli June Cerankowski 8. Aliens and
Asexuality: Media Representation, Queerness, and Asexual Visibility Sarah
E.S. Sinwell 9. Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual/Crip Resistance in John
Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus. Cynthia Barounis 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 Andrew
Grossman 11. Masculine Doubt and Sexual Wonder: Asexually-Identified Men
Talk About Their (A)sexualites Ela Przybylo Part V: Health, Disability, and
Medicalization 12. Asexualities and Disabilities in Constructing Sexual
Normalcy Eunjung Kim 13. Asexuality and Disability: Mutual Negation in
Adams v. Rice and New Directions for Coalition Building Kristina Gupta 14.
Deferred Desire: The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain Christine Labuski
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 Jana Fedtke 16. Toward an Asexual Narrative Structure Elizabeth
Hanna Hanson