As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, this book 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.

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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.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: Beyond Sexuality, Beyond the Human

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

2. Asexual Ecologies

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

Part II: Asexuality, Identity, and the Political Sphere

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

5. There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Asexuality's Sinthomatics

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

7. A Brief Manifesto Against Asexual Respectability Politics

Part III: A/sexologies: Measuring Desire

8. Asexual Desires? Mismeasures in the Sexual Sciences

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

10. Deferred Desire: The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain

Part IV: Asexualities in Place and Space

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

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

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

Part V: Reading Asexually

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

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

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

17. Toward an Asexual Narrative Structure

Part VI: Asexual Kinship and Platonic Intimacies

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

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

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

Part VII: Ace Solidarities/Ace Futures

21. Asexuality and Disability: New Directions for Coalition Building

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

23. Toward a Global Asexual Solidarity Beyond Identity

24. Freedom Lover: Blackness, Asexuality, Abolition

Coda - Never Enough: Then, Now, and Tomorrow