The Allure of Artifice: Deploying a Filipina Avatar in the Digital Porno-Tropics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Epigraph v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Queer Feminist Science Studies: An Introduction 1
6. PART ONE: Histories of Difference
7. Introduction 25
8. Sexing the X: How the X Became the “Female Chromosome” 30
9. Pelvic Politics: Sexual Dimorphism and Racial Difference 43
10. The Sexual Reproduction of “Race”: Bisexuality, History, and Racialization 56
11. From Masturbator to Homosexual: The Construction of the Sex Pervert 68
12. “An Unnamed Blank that Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender 82
13. PART TWO: Contemporary Archives and Case Studies
14. Introduction 97
15. Black Anality 102
16. At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X 114
17. “BIID”? Queer (Dis)Orientations and the Phenomenology of “Home” 127
18. The Allure of Artifice: Deploying a Filipina Avatar in the Digital Porno-Tropics 141
19. Gone, Missing: Queering and Racializing Absence in Trans & Intersex Archives 157
20. PART THREE: Disruptive Practices
21. Introduction 173
22. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 177
23. Pussy Ballistics and the Queer Appeal of Peristalsis, or Belly Dancing with Margaret Cho 192
24. Embodiments of Safety 207
25. Consent, Capacity, and the Non-Narrative 221
26. Brains, Sex, and Queers 2090: An Ideal Experiment 234
27. PART FOUR: Beyond the Human
28. Introduction 249
29. “Why Do Voles Fall in Love?”: Sexual Dimorphism in Monogamy Gene Research 254
30. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? 268
31. “The Bio-Technological Impact” and “Abstract Sex” 282
32. Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections 296
33. Plasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Commons 310
34. Index 327
35. Feminist Technosciences 339