Asexual erotics : intimate readings of compulsory sexuality /

Asexual erotics : intimate readings of compulsory sexuality /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Przybylo, Ela, 1985- author.
Imprint:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment.
Subject:	Asexuality (Sexual orientation) Sex. Sexual attraction. Queer theory. Feminist theory. Asexuality (Sexual orientation) Feminist theory. Queer theory. Sex. Sexual attraction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11925048

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ISBN:	9780814214046 0814214045 9780814255421 0814255426
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (169-187) and index.
Summary:	"Analyzes queer, feminist, and anti-racist movements; television and film; art and photography; and fiction, nonfiction, and theoretical texts to explore asexual erotics and demonstrate how asexuality has been vital to the formulation of intimate ways of knowing and being"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Erotics and asexuality: thinking asexuality, unthinking sex
The erotics of feminist revolution: political celibacies/asexualities in the women's movement
Lesbian bed death, asexually: an erotics of failure
Growing into asexuality: the queer erotics of childhood
Erotics of excess and the aging spinster
Epilogue: Tyrannical celibacy: the anti-erotics of misogyny and white supremacy.