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Book Synopsis
There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one's understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time.

The Book Review


This groundbreaking reader will spark the development of new courses in communication and sexuality. Students and teachers wanting to fully understand the constitutive and performative nature of communication will find few other books that meet their needs better than this one.
R. Jeffrey Ringer, St. Cloud University

Sexualities and Communication in Eve

Trade Review
"There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one′s understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time."

—The Book Review -- Vasanth Kannabiran * The Book Review - December 2007 *

Table of Contents
Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Salih 4. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part I] - E. Patrick Johnson 5. The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde Part II: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Interpersonal Contexts 6. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence - William Leap 7. "Having a Girlfriend Without Knowing It": Intimate Friendships Among Adolescent Sexual-Minority Women - Lisa M. Diamond 8. Accounts of Sexual Identity Formation in Heterosexual Students - Michele J. Eliason 9. M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty - Terry Tafoya 10. Migrancy and Homodesire - Myron Beasley 11. Performing "I Do": Wedding, Pornography, and Sex - Elizabeth Bell 12. A Critical Appraisal of Assimiliationist and Radical Ideologies Underlying Same-Sex Marriage in LGBT Communities in the United States - Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia Part III: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Public Discourses 13. Performing the Rhetoric of Science: Dr. Laura′s Portrayal of Homosexuality - Paul Turpin 14. Disciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity - John M. Sloop 15. "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well": Memory and Queer Culture in Will and Grace - Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed 16. Living in the Middle: Performances Bi-Men - John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel 17. "Holly Kowalski": Sex Across the Curriculum - Jennifer Tuder 18. Queering the (Sacred) Body Politic: Considering the Performative Cultural Politics of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Cathy B. Glenn Part IV: Transforming Sexualities and Communication: Visions and Praxis 19. The Spirituality of Sex and the Sexuality of Spirit: BDSM Erotic Play as Soulwork and Social Critique - Robert G. Westerfelhaus 20. Menopause and Desire, or 452 Positions on Love - Mercilee M. Jenkins 21. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part II] - E. Patrick Johnson 22. Activism and Identity Through the Word: A Mixed-Race Woman Claims Her Space - Wendy M. Thompson 23. Making Alliances - Gloria E. Anzaldua About the Editors

Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life

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      Publisher Sage Publications
      Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
      Published 1/26/2006 12:09:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781412914437
      978-1412914437
      ISBN-10 1412914434
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one's understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time.

      The Book Review


      This groundbreaking reader will spark the development of new courses in communication and sexuality. Students and teachers wanting to fully understand the constitutive and performative nature of communication will find few other books that meet their needs better than this one.
      R. Jeffrey Ringer, St. Cloud University

      Sexualities and Communication in Eve

      Trade Review
      "There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one′s understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time."

      —The Book Review -- Vasanth Kannabiran * The Book Review - December 2007 *

      Table of Contents
      Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Salih 4. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part I] - E. Patrick Johnson 5. The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde Part II: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Interpersonal Contexts 6. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence - William Leap 7. "Having a Girlfriend Without Knowing It": Intimate Friendships Among Adolescent Sexual-Minority Women - Lisa M. Diamond 8. Accounts of Sexual Identity Formation in Heterosexual Students - Michele J. Eliason 9. M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty - Terry Tafoya 10. Migrancy and Homodesire - Myron Beasley 11. Performing "I Do": Wedding, Pornography, and Sex - Elizabeth Bell 12. A Critical Appraisal of Assimiliationist and Radical Ideologies Underlying Same-Sex Marriage in LGBT Communities in the United States - Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia Part III: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Public Discourses 13. Performing the Rhetoric of Science: Dr. Laura′s Portrayal of Homosexuality - Paul Turpin 14. Disciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity - John M. Sloop 15. "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well": Memory and Queer Culture in Will and Grace - Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed 16. Living in the Middle: Performances Bi-Men - John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel 17. "Holly Kowalski": Sex Across the Curriculum - Jennifer Tuder 18. Queering the (Sacred) Body Politic: Considering the Performative Cultural Politics of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Cathy B. Glenn Part IV: Transforming Sexualities and Communication: Visions and Praxis 19. The Spirituality of Sex and the Sexuality of Spirit: BDSM Erotic Play as Soulwork and Social Critique - Robert G. Westerfelhaus 20. Menopause and Desire, or 452 Positions on Love - Mercilee M. Jenkins 21. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part II] - E. Patrick Johnson 22. Activism and Identity Through the Word: A Mixed-Race Woman Claims Her Space - Wendy M. Thompson 23. Making Alliances - Gloria E. Anzaldua About the Editors

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