Language, sexualities and desires cross-cultural perspectives /
Language, Sexualities and Desires presents new research on the use of language as evidence for the construction of sexual identities. The contributors offer real-life data originating from a number of cultures, and a polysexual focus. They show how linguistic research in the areas of desire, sexual...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Language, sexualities and desires / Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis
- Sex talk : language, desire, identity and beyond / Liz Morrish and William Leap
- 'Everyone was convinced that we were closet fags' : the role of heterosexuality in the construction of hegemonic masculinity / Jennifer Coates
- 'This sex thing is such an important issue now' : sex talk and identities in three groups of adolescent girls / Pia Pichler
- The semantics of desire : exploring desire, love and sexuality through metaphor / Sakis Kyratzis
- Queering language : a love that dare not speak its name comes out of the closet / Yvonne Dröschel
- Education, culture and the construction of sexual identity : an appraisal analysis of lesbian coming out narratives / Helen Sauntson
- The transformed gay self : the male body and its scenic presence as sites of gay self-enunciation / Stephan A. Grosse
- The subversive effect of the signals of erotic text patterning / Michael Hoey
- Going 'back to basics' : moral panics about heterosexual relationships / Lia Litosseliti
- Women like us : mediating and contesting identity in lesbian advice literature / Deborah A. Chirrey.