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Introduction: Erotics and asexuality: thinking asexuality, unthinking sex -- The erotics of feminist revolution: political celibacies/asexualities in the women's movement -- Lesbian bed death, asexually: an erotics of failure -- Growing into asexuality: the queer erotics of childhood -- Erotics of excess and the aging spinster -- Epilogue: Tyrannical celibacy: the anti-erotics of misogyny and white supremacy.

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing on the knowledge generated by asexual community, activism, and scholarship, Ela Przybylo gives us the first queer and feminist monograph on asexuality.

Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised. This edited volume addresses diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+) and captures international research and analysis relating to intersectional identities. Contributors explore how being older intersects with differences of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. Offering a critical focus and original contribution to an emerging, although still relatively neglected field, this collection extends knowledge concerning intimacies, practices and pleasures for those thought to represent normative, non-normative and 'new normative' forms of sexual identification and expression