Includes bibliographical references (169-187) and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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