{"product_id":"lets-not-talk-about-transgender-riki-wilchins-9781350574502","title":"Let's (Not) Talk about (Transgender) Sex: The Erotic Erasure of Trans Desire \u0026 Sexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor decades, trans studies and queer theory have treated the trans body as a theoretical construct - a site for identity, dysphoria, and gender politics - leaving erotic realities largely unexamined. Desire, pleasure, and \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e sex has been pushed to the margins, rendered almost unspeakable.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book challenges that silence. It asks why sexuality - once a privileged site of inquiry in queer theory - has all but vanished from trans scholarship, and what this erasure reveals about the politics of respectability, cisnormativity, and the lingering discomfort with bodies that refuse to behave \"properly.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough rigorous analysis and intimate narrative, the book explores how bodies do things - and how different bodies do different things - shaping possibilities for desire, sensation, and intimacy. It interrogates the cultural and academic forces that have de-sexed trans subjects, examines the aesthetic and linguistic struggles around naming and eroticizing trans bodies, and charts a path toward a trans studies that embraces the messy, fleshy, and truly human dimensions of sexuality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth provocative and personal, this book insists that there can be no real account of gender without a reckoning with sex. It is a call to bring pleasure back into the conversation - not as an afterthought, but as a vital site of knowledge, resistance, and joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Riki Wilchins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350574503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350574502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.00d","brand":"Riki Wilchins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48242077204735,"sku":"9781350574502","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3605bd2-84bf-4b7e-9627-49668dc40418.jpg?v=1772657388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lets-not-talk-about-transgender-riki-wilchins-9781350574502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}