{"product_id":"the-sexuality-of-care-on-nursing-kink-and-a-future-without-hospitals-9781558613621","title":"The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. K. Thekkumkattil is an ICU nurse looking for ways to show real care for their patients in the age of COVID. When not working in critical care, they struggle with chronic illness, endure controlling partners, and write letters to former patients that wrestle with the violence of professional nursing. At the same time, their slow gender awakening and the new, kink-informed relationships that accompany it begin to shape a way out of the brutalities the hospital system requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn essays that blend memoir and manifesto, \u003cem\u003eThe Sexuality of Care \u003c\/em\u003ebuilds a convincing new argument for how the present-day medical system fails both its patients and its laboring nurses, as well as how the vision of radical consent found in queer kink practices lets us imagine a future where hospitals are abolished, yet care thrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. K. Thekkumkattil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558613621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. K. Thekkumkattil \u003c\/b\u003eis a trans, disabled, kinky writer and nurse whose liberation is bound up with Palestinian liberation. They have received support from SmokeLong Quarterly, Tin House, Queer Art Mentorship, Lambda Literary, VONA, and Writing by Writers. Their work can be found in the chapbook \u003ci\u003eWeaving Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e as well as in \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003esmoke and mold\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e___figuration\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYear Round Queer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Future There Are No Hospitals\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e is a theorist of care communization and queer utopias whose work has been translated into many languages. She is an antiwork transfeminist writer and self-described \"recovering academic\" who hails from Europe but lives in Philadelphia and teaches short courses online at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her essays appear everywhere from the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the author of \u003ci\u003eFull Surrogacy Now\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eEnemy Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eFemmephilia\u003c\/i\u003e (2026). Her forthcoming books include a monograph from Penguin Random House, \u003ci\u003eThe Liberation of Children\u003c\/i\u003e (2027). You can follow or support her writing at patreon.com\/reproutopia\/ or lasophielle.org\/.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"M. K. Thekkumkattil \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48840892317853,"sku":"9781558613621","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_5e3d4a80-d8b4-49fb-95a0-38103a23fa83.jpg?v=1787727974","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-sexuality-of-care-on-nursing-kink-and-a-future-without-hospitals-9781558613621","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}