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Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. This book investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another.

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"This cohesive collection is a major, timely, and welcome contribution to a changing field. It engages a series of criss-crossing topics not previously studied in this fashion, and certainly not on this scale." --- Roger N. Lancaster, author of The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture and coeditor of The Gender/Sexuality Reader

Speaking in Queer Tongues

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    A Paperback / softback by William L. Leap, Tom Boellstorff

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/11/2003
      ISBN13: 9780252071423, 978-0252071423
      ISBN10: 0252071425

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. This book investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another.

      Trade Review
      "This cohesive collection is a major, timely, and welcome contribution to a changing field. It engages a series of criss-crossing topics not previously studied in this fashion, and certainly not on this scale." --- Roger N. Lancaster, author of The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture and coeditor of The Gender/Sexuality Reader

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