Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Richly theorised and well argued, the book is an important contribution to this emerging and significant field of study."— Andy Carolin, University of South Africa, Gender Questions