Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader

by Karen E. Lovaas (editor), Jeffrey Weeks, Sara Salih

Sexualities and Communication in Everyday A Reader is a groundbreaking anthology on the role of communication in the construction and performance of sexualities in interpersonal contexts and in public discourses. Editors Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins bring together an interdisciplinary collection which include excerpts from foundational works, recent journal articles, and original pieces written specifically for this text.

Paperback

First published August 3, 2006

About the author

Dr. Karen E. Lovaas (Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Hawaii) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies with an emphasis in Critical Theory.

(from http://communicationstudies.sfsu.edu/...)

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

ILL use ISBN to look up in Worldcat
now in trade paper and 'used' costs nearly $30

TOC only from Worldcat (comments mine):

Contents: Introduction: Setting the stage / Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins

-- The invention of heterosexuality: the debut of the heterosexual / Jonathan Ned Katz

-- Necessary fictions: sexual identities and the politics of diversity / Jeffrey Weeks

-- On Judith Butler and performativity / Sara Salih

-- "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother (part 1) / E. Patrick Johnson

-- The uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde

-- Language, socialization, and silence in gay adolescence / William Leap

-- "Having a girlfriend without knowing it" : intimate friendships among adolescent sexual-minority women / Lisa M. Diamond -- Accounts of sexual identity formation in heterosexual students / Michele J. Eliason -- M. Dragonfly : two-spirit and the Tafoya principle of uncertainty / Terry Tafoya -- Migrancy and homodesire / Myron Beasley -- Performing "I do" : weddings, pornography, and sex / Elizabeth Bell -- A critical appraisal of assimiliationist and radical ideologies underlying same-sex marriage in LGBT communities in the United States / Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia -- Performing a rhetoric of science : Dr. Laura's portrayal of homosexuality / Paul Turpin -- Disciplining the transgendered : Brandon Teena, public representation, and normativity / John M. Sloop -- "Ah, yes, I remember it well" : memory and queer culture in Will and Grace / Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed -- Living in the middle : performances bi-men / John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel -- "Holly Kowalski" : sex across the curriculum / Jennifer Tuder -- Queering the (sacred) body politic : considering the performative cultural politics of the sisters of perpetual indulgence / Cathy B. Glenn -- The spirituality of sex and the sexuality of spirit : BDSM erotic play as soulwork and social critique / Robert G. Westerfelhaus -- Menopause and desire, or 452 positions on love / Mercilee M. Jenkins -- "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother (part 2) / E. Patrick Johnson -- Activism and identity through the word : a mixed-race woman claims her space / Wendy M. Thompson -- Making alliances / Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

[Indhisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

for anybody who has a curiosity for sexuality phenomena currently taking over our media, this book will be a good reference.