Radical refusals

On the anarchist politics of women choosing asexuality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18994001
AutoresB Fahs (0000-0001-6843-8066, Arizona State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume13
Fascículo4
Páginas445-461
Data de publicação2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSexualities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1363460710370650
OpenAlexW2137518351
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas27

This article examines how women consciously choosing asexuality might inform both radical feminist politics and anarchic concepts of positive and negative liberty. By resituating some of the lesser-known narratives of the 1960s’ and 1970s’ radical feminist movement (e.g. Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto and Boston’s Cell 16 and No More Fun and Games), asexuality is shown to disrupt key intersections between sexuality and the state, particularly institutions that control reproduction, pleasure, and women’s bodies. Using interview data with Cell 16 members, content analysis of early radical feminist writings, and theoretical and historical analyses of separatism, the piece argues that, by removing themselves from sexuality, women can take a more anarchic stance against the entire institution of sex, thereby working toward more nihilistic, anti-reproduction, anti-family goals that severely disrupt commonly held assumptions about sex, gender, and power

Art · Asexuality · Feminism · Human sexuality · Institution · Literature · Manifesto · Narrative · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology