Reading Sexualities - Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies

Zusatztext 'A thoughtful and refreshingly pointed introduction to the principle questions quickening the present and the future of queer theory.' David L. Clark! McMaster University Informationen zum Autor Donald E. Hall is Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at West Virginia University. He is a long-time political activist! and the author or editor of nine previous books in the fields of gender studies! higher education studies! and Victorian studies. These include Fixing Patriarchy! RePresenting Bisexualities! Queer Theories! and Subjectivity. Zusammenfassung Reading Sexualities shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being challenged and changed, and argues that by approaching the reading of sexualities responsibly, we become active participants in the political, empowering process of reading the self through the perspective of the other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Sexual hermeneutics; Chapter 2 Desirably queer futures; Chapter 3 Transcending the self; Chapter 4 Global conversations; Chapter 5 Radical sexuality and ethical responsibility;

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• Authors: Donald E. Hall, Donald E. (West Virginia University Hall, Hall Donald E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2009
• EAN: 9780415367851
• ISBN: 978-0-415-36785-1
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literary studies: general, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality