Asexual Erotics
Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality
$124.63
- Paperback
210 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2019
Summary
Challenging what she sees as an obsession with sex and sexuality, Ela Przybylo examines the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking-turning to Audre Lorde’s work on erotics to propose instead an approach she calls asexual erotics, an alternative language for discussing forms of intimacy that are not reducible to sex and sexuality. Beginning with the late 1960s as a time when compulsory sexuality intensified and became increasingly tied to feminist, le…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814255421 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0814255426 |
| Author: | Ela Przybylo |
| Publisher: | Ohio State University Press |
| Imprint: | Ohio State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 313g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment |
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Critics Review
“Przybylo’s book [offers…] academic primer for etic scholars seeking to expand their understanding of this less-well-known band of the queer spectrum and to consider the implications and effects of disentangling sex from romance.” –Ellen Carter, Journal of Popular Romance Studies
“Asexual Erotics is a much-needed study on queer theory’s obsession with ‘sex’ as an underpinning force. What’s more, it shows that paying attention to ‘erotics’ opens up new intersectional possibilities for thinking with and through difference in ways that a focus on sex and sexuality can prohibit. It makes a timely intervention in feminist studies and queer studies and provides important material for disability scholars, trans studies scholars, and visual and media studies scholars.” –Jennifer Tyburczy
About The Author
Ela Przybylo
Ela Przybylo is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University.
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