Queer excursions: retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality

by Davis, Jenny L., (Jenny Lynn) Raclaw, Joshua Zimman, Lal

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Full title :Queer excursions : retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality / edited by Lal Zimman, Jenny L. Davis, and Joshua Raclaw.

Summary

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. -- Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 231 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199937318, 0199937311, 9780199937295, 019993729X
oclc:ocn865711510
LC Classification:P120.S48
Dewey Decimal:306.44081

1. Opposites attract: Theorizing binarity in sociocultural linguistics / Jenny Davis (University of Kentucky);Lal Zimman (Reed College); Joshua Raclaw (Metropolitan State University of Denver) -- 2. The discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the gendered body in talk about genitals among trans men / Lal Zimman (Reed College) -- 3. "Speech creates a kind of commitment": Queering Hebrew / Orit Bershtling (Bar Ilan University)-- 4. "More than just 'gay Indians": Intersecting articulations of Two-Spirit gender, sexuality, and indigenousness / Jenny Davis (University of Kentucky) -- 5. Language and non-normative gender and sexuality in Indonesia / Evelyn Blackwood (Purdue University) -- 6. Sexual subjectivities and lesbian and gay narratives of belonging in Israel / Erez Levon (Queen Mary, University of London)-- 7. The sex machine, the full-body tattoo, and the hermaphrodite: Gay sexual cinema, audience reception and fractal recursivity / William Leap (American University) -- 8. Neither in nor out: Taking the "T" out of the closet / Elijah Edelman (University of Maryland, College Park) -- 9. Acting like women, acted upon: Gender and agency in Hausa sexual narratives /…

Subjects

Geschlechtsidentität Langage et langues -- Différences entre… Language and gender Language and languages -- Sex differenc… Queer theory Queer-Theorie semantics Sémantique Sprache