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Queer Excursions - Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Hardcover)
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Queer Excursions - Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Language and Gender
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Across scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female
versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as a
symbol of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects
and practices. The chapters in Queer Excursions offer a series of
distinct perspectives on these binaries, as well as on a number of
other, less immediately apparent dichotomies that nevertheless
permeate the gendered and sexual lives of speakers. Several
chapters focus on the limiting or misleading qualities of
binaristic analyses, while others suggest that binaries are a
crucial component of social meaning within particular communities
of study. Rather than simply accepting binary structures as
inevitable, or discarding them from our analyses entirely based on
their oppressive or reductionary qualities, this volume advocates
for a re-theorization of the binary that affords more complex and
contextually-grounded engagement with speakers' own orientations to
dichotomous systems. It is from this perspective that contributors
identify a number of diverging conceptualizations of binaries,
including those that are non-mutually exclusive, those that
liberate in the same moment that they constrain, those that are
imposed implicitly by researchers, and those that re-contextualize
familiar divisions with innovative meanings. Each chapter offers a
unique perspective on locally salient linguistic practices that
help constitute gender and sexuality in marginalized communities.
As a collection, Queer Excursions argues that researchers must be
careful to avoid the assumption that our own preconceptions about
binary social structures will be shared by the communities we
study.
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