Overview

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 social meaning within particular communities of study. Rather than simply accepting binary structures as inevitable, or discarding them from our analyses entirely based on their oppressive or reductionary qualities, this volume advocates for a re-theorization of the binary that affords more complex and contextually-grounded engagement with speakers' own orientations to dichotomous systems. It is from this perspective that contributors identify a number of diverging conceptualizations of binaries, including those that are non-mutually exclusive, those that liberate in the same moment that they constrain, those that are imposed implicitly by researchers, and those that re-contextualize familiar divisions with innovative meanings. Each chapter offers a unique perspective on locally salient linguistic practices that help constitute gender and sexuality in marginalized communities. As a collection, Queer Excursions argues that researchers must be careful to avoid the assumption that our own preconceptions about binary social structures will be shared by the communities we study.

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Author:   Lal Zimman (Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College) ,  Jenny Davis (Lyman T. Johnson Post-doctoral Fellow in Linguistics, Lyman T. Johnson Post-doctoral Fellow in Linguistics, University of Kentucky) ,  Joshua Raclaw (Post-doctoral Researcher, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780199937318

ISBN 10:   0199937311
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents 1. Opposites attract: Theorizing binarity in sociocultural linguistics Jenny Davis (University of Kentucky) Lal Zimman (Reed College) Joshua Raclaw (Metropolitan State University of Denver) 2. The discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the gendered body in talk about genitals among trans men Lal Zimman (Reed College) 3. ""Speech creates a kind of commitment"": Queering Hebrew Orit Bershtling (Bar Ilan University) 4. ""More than just 'gay Indians"": Intersecting articulations of Two-Spirit gender, sexuality, and indigenousness Jenny Davis (University of Kentucky) 5. Language and non-normative gender and sexuality in Indonesia Evelyn Blackwood (Purdue University) 6. Sexual subjectivities and lesbian and gay narratives of belonging in Israel Erez Levon (Queen Mary, University of London) 7. The sex machine, the full-body tattoo, and the hermaphrodite: Gay sexual cinema, audience reception and fractal recursivity William Leap (American University) 8. Neither in nor out: Taking the ""T"" out of the closet Elijah Edelman (University of Maryland, College Park), elijah.edelman@american.edu 9. Acting like women, acted upon: Gender and agency in Hausa sexual narratives Rudolf P. Gaudio (State University of New York, Purchase) 10. The emergence of the unmarked: Queer theory, language ideology, and formal linguistics Rusty Barrett (University of Kentucky)"

Reviews

As a whole, this edited volume will be of interest to both novice and experiences researchers in areas related to discourse, gender, and sexuality studies.It furnished its readers with multi-faceted explorations of the binaries that are still pervasive in the field. * Alfonso Sanchez-Moya, Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2017 *

As a whole, this edited volume will be of interest to both novice and experiences researchers in areas related to discourse, gender, and sexuality studies.It furnished its readers with multi-faceted explorations of the binaries that are still pervasive in the field. --Alfonso Sanchez-Moya, Journal of Language and Sexuality.

Author Information

Lal Zimman is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College. His research, which brings together ethnographic, sociophonetic, and discourse analytic frameworks, deals with the relationship between gender, sexuality, and embodiment in the linguistic practices of transgender and LGBQ communities. Jenny L. Davis is a Lyman T. Johnson Post-doctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Kentucky. Her research analyzes the intersections of language, ethnicity, and identity, with foci on indigenous language use and the sociocultural dynamics of language revitalization. Joshua Raclaw is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Center for Women's Health Research and Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on conversation analysis and sociolinguistic analyses of language, gender, and sexuality in the United States.

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