{"product_id":"in-defense-of-sex-nonbinary-embodiment-and-desire-paperback","title":"In Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Breu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the need to recenter the category of sex-theorizing sex itself as nonbinary-in contemporary studies of gender and sexuality\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGender has largely replaced sex as a category in critical theory, in progressive cultural circles, and in everyday bureaucratic language. Much of this development has been salutary. Gender has become a crucial site for theorizing trans identifications and embodiments. Yet, without a concomi-tant theory of sex, gender's contemporary uses also intersect with late neoliberalism's emphasis on micro-identities, flexibility, avatar culture, and human capital. Contemporary culture has also grown more ambivalent about sexual desire and its expression. Sex is seen as both ubiquitous and ubiquitously a problem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Sex \u003c\/i\u003etheorizes sex as both a nonbinary form of embodiment (one that can comple-ment recent trans conceptions of gender as multiple and nonbinary) and a crucial form of social desire. Drawing on intersex and trans theory as well as Marxist theory, feminist new materialism, psychoanalysis, and accounts of the flesh in Black studies, author Christopher Breu argues for a materialist understanding of embodiment and the workings of desire as they structure contemporary culture. Moving from critique to theorizing embodiment, desire, and forms of bioaccumulation, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Sex \u003c\/i\u003econcludes by proposing the unabashedly utopian project of building a sexual and embodied commons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire \u003ci\u003eis available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773589848352,"sku":"9781531508777","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a874cb4bb6505ce2403ed22ece45e517_355bb5fc-a834-4f6c-90df-3a7bbc1a101c.webp?v=1780428464","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-defense-of-sex-nonbinary-embodiment-and-desire-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}