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Across scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as a symbol of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters in Queer Excursions offer a series of distinct perspectives on these binaries, as well as on a number of other, less immediately apparent dichotomies that nevertheless permeate the gendered and sexual lives of speakers. Several chapters focus on the limiting or misleading qualities of binaristic analyses, while others suggest that binaries are a crucial component of…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2014Oxford University Press · 248 pages · 9780199937295
- Other · English · 2014Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality)Oxford University Press · 256 pages · 9780199937318
Language and languages, sex differencesSemanticsLanguage and languagesSex differencesLGBTQ anthropologyRuth Benedict PrizeLangage et languesDifférences entre sexes