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Author: Christopher Breu
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Weight: 0.345kg
ISBN: 9781531508777
ISBN 10: 1531508774
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In Defense of Sex offers a novel, rigorous, creative, and timely intervention. By grounding his theoretical contribution in lived experience and connecting it to those of other multiply marginalized subjects and communities, Breu advances and intertwines scholarly and activist dialogues in vital new ways.---David A. Rubin, author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
"As gender categories fabulously expand and multiply, what does, what can, sex mean now? Departing from both sex negativity and the relative lack of attention to the category of sex, Breu articulates a new understanding of sex for the 21st century. Ambitiously intermingling several theoretical terrains, Breu forges a position that is nonbinary but also materialist, as he calls for relational collectivities, desire, flourishing, ecological ""transspecies being,"" and the creation of a transindividual, sexual, bodily commons. This is a bold, inventive, and theoretically capacious vision that grapples with emerging problematics of sex, gender, embodiment, justice, scale, transformation, wild visions, and more.---Stacy Alaimo, Author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times In Defense of Sex offers a novel, rigorous, creative, and timely intervention. By grounding his theoretical contribution in lived experience and connecting it to those of other multiply marginalized subjects and communities, Breu advances and intertwines scholarly and activist dialogues in vital new ways.---David A. Rubin, author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism"
As gender categories fabulously expand and multiply, what does, what can, sex mean now? Departing from both sex negativity and the relative lack of attention to the category of sex, Breu articulates a new understanding of sex for the 21st century. Ambitiously intermingling several theoretical terrains, Breu forges a position that is nonbinary but also materialist, as he calls for relational collectivities, desire, flourishing, ecological ""transspecies being,"" and the creation of a transindividual, sexual, bodily commons. This is a bold, inventive, and theoretically capacious vision that grapples with emerging problematics of sex, gender, embodiment, justice, scale, transformation, wild visions, and more.---Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times In Defense of Sex offers a novel, rigorous, creative, and timely intervention. By grounding his theoretical contribution in lived experience and connecting it to those of other multiply marginalized subjects and communities, Breu advances and intertwines scholarly and activist dialogues in vital new ways.---David A. Rubin, author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
Author Information
Christopher Breu (he/they) is Professor of English at Illinois State University. He is the author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics and Hard-Boiled Masculinities. He is also co-editor (with Elizabeth A. Hatmaker) of Noir Affect (Fordham).
