.,."Bound to become the definitive work on [this subject]...The
essays cover an extraordinary range of topics, from television to
the very personal language shared by couples..."Queer Words, Queer
Images" is must reading for anyone interested in the gentle art of
communication.
--Karla Jay, Professor of English and Women's Studies, Pace
University, co-Editor, "Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay
Liberation"
In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual
orientation. "Queer Words, Queer Images" addresses this debate, but
with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue
precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and
communicate about the concept and experience of homosexuality. The
debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of
communication--as we can see by the recent controversy over gays in
the military. This controversy, termed by one gay man as the
annoying habit of heterosexual men to overestimate their own
attractiveness, has been debated in communication-sensitive terms,
such as morale and discipline.
The twenty chapters address such subjects as gay political
language, homosexuality and AIDS on prime-time television, the
politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction, the
identification of female athleticism with lesbianism, the politics
of identity in the works of Edmund White, and coming out
strategies. This is must reading for students of communication
practices and theory, and for everyone interested in human
sexuality.
Contributing to the book are: James Chesebro (Indiana State),
James Darsey (Ohio State), Joseph A. Devito (Hunter College, CUNY),
Timothy Edgar (Purdue), Mary Anne Fitzpatrick(Wisconsin, Madison),
Karen A. Foss (Humboldt State), Kirk Fuoss (St. Lawrence), Larry
Gross (Pennsylvania), Darlene Hantzis (Indiana State), Fred E.
Jandt (California State, San Bernardino), Mercilee Jenkins (San
Francisco State), Valerie Lehr (St. Lawrence), Lynn C. Miller
(Texas, Austin), Marguerite Moritz (Colorado, Boulder), Fred L.
Myrick (Spring Hill), Emile Netzhammer (Buffalo State), Elenie
Opffer, Dorothy S. Painter (Ohio State), Karen Peper (Michigan),
Nicholas F. Radel (Furman), R. Jeffrey Ringer (St. Cloud State),
Scott Shamp (Georgia), Paul Siegel (Gallaudet), Jacqueline Taylor
(Depaul), Julia T. Wood (North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
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