Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

"Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling--affects such as coldness, insensitivity and sexual frigidity that are not recognized as feeling--as a means of survival and refusal for people of color and queer people in nineteenth-century America."--