Binding: Paperback
Description: Reading Sexualities 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: examine the vexed ethical critical and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross - cultural encounters read the changing landscape of sexual identity finding great cause for optimism and enthusiastic engagement urge readers to embrace a far - reaching dialogic practice as a mechanism for furthering radical social change. Reading Sexualities 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 politically urgent process of reading the self through the perspective of the other.
Title: Reading Sexualities Hermeneutic Theory And The Future Of Queer Studies
Author(s): Hall Donald E.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415367868
Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Date: 2/27/2009
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups