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The Language and Sexuality Reader (Hardcover)
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The Language and Sexuality Reader (Hardcover)
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The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first collection to bring
together historical and contemporary writings from a range of
academic disciplines to explore the connections between sex as a
domain of human experience and the language we use to speak and
write about it. The topics addressed by contributors include gay
slang and gay speech styles; the language of drag performances,
personal ads, Nepali love letters and Japanese schoolgirl fiction;
what counts as 'having sex' and whether 'marriage' has to be
heterosexual by definition; the communication of sexual desire,
consent and refusal; and how heterosexuals reveal themselves in
ordinary conversation.
Bringing together material from fields including anthropology,
communication studies, linguistics, medicine and psychology, the
text begins by guiding students through early work in the field,
which focused on homosexual language-use and its difference from
the heterosexual mainstream. The second part of the reader widens
the focus: moving away from the generic labels 'homosexual' and
'heterosexual', it explores the diversity of linguistic and sexual
practices as documented and debated among scholars from the
mid-1990s to the present.
Organised in thematic sections, the Reader addresses
- The origins and development of language and sexuality research
from the 1940s to the 1980s
- The use people make of language to perform sexuality and sexual
identity
- How language reflects, reinforces or challenges norms defining
what is 'natural' and desirable in the sphere of sex
- The verbal communication of sexual desire
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