okay, so what this title SOUNDS like it’s saying is that choosing celibacy “queers” heteropatriarchy, including/only? when straight people do it. but, like, that’s obviously not what the book is about, right?

It SORT of is? The central premise seems to be that women, specifically, who are celibate “transcend gender” by making themselves sexually unavailable to men, and that’s queering heteropatriarchy. Or something. The author is pretty, uh, out there. I’m mainly reading it because it contains a lot of analysis of classical text and imagery (an analysis that specifically de-sexualizes texts and images that have been sexualized in contemporary gender theory discourse) and because I want to talk about subtext and the interpretations of repressed, subversive narratives as contemporary sites of struggle.