{"product_id":"reading-sexualities-9780415367851","title":"Reading Sexualities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Sexualities\u003c\/em\u003e confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cli\u003eexamine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eread the changing landscape of sexual identity, finding great cause for optimism and enthusiastic engagement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eurge readers to embrace a far-reaching dialogic practice as a mechanism for furthering radical social change.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Sexualities\u003c\/em\u003e shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hall argues that by approaching sexual diversity with openness and humility, we become active participants in the pol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A thoughtful and refreshingly pointed introduction to the principle questions quickening the present and the future of queer theory.' David L. Clark, McMaster University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Sexual hermeneutics; Chapter 2 Desirably queer futures; Chapter 3 Transcending the self; Chapter 4 Global conversations; Chapter 5 Radical sexuality and ethical responsibility;","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402101760343,"sku":"9780415367851","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-sexualities-9780415367851","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}