Full Description
Critical Sexuality Studies (CSS) and Lavender Languages/Linguistics (LLL) are leading modes of inquiry in two different fields of sexuality studies. In this edited collection, chapters reveal how these can be combined to produce a new approach to analyzing language use, sexuality and gender, and discourse on authority and power.
The book demonstrates how together LLL and CSS iterate each other through their mutual concern with sexuality, gender, and power, especially when considering the materiality of daily life. Authors then compare CSS to other fields of sexuality studies to reveal commonalities and tensions that are addressed via the LLL-based interventions exemplified in this volume. The body of the book organizes examples of Lavender Languages projects around a four-part CSS framework, with an introductory essay for each section indicating the connections between the CSS theme and the LLL examples. The volume concludes with reflections showing how CSS interests in sexuality and power benefits from LLL with its emphasis on socially focused studies of discourse and text.
Strengthening pathways to future knowledge-making, this book provides a detailed roadmap for scholarly and activist engagements in language-centered critical sexuality studies.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Doing Language and Power: Lavender Languages, Critical Sexuality Studies, and Everyday Life, Michelle Marzullo (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA) and William Leap (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Part I: Power
1. 'Putes Feministas': Inclusive Language and Social Media Activism, Leyla Savloff (Elon University, USA)
2. Constructed Speech and Figures of Childhood in Arizona Lawmaker Comments About Anti-Queer Legislation, Sean Nonnenmacher
Part II: Concepts
3. The Language of "Reading": Competition, Camaraderie, and Competence in a Local Drag Community, Aiden Christopher VanderStouwe
4. Breaking the Rules of Guided Language, Megan Patricia Robertson (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)
Part III: Normativities
5. 'The Transgender Couple': Transnormativity and the Discourse of t4t, Lex Konnelly (University of South Carolina, USA) and Archie Crowley, (Elon University, USA)
6. Situational Variation in a Bigender Finnish Speaker's Idiolect: A Folk Linguistic Case Study, Meri Lindeman (University of Turku, Truku, Finland)
Part IV: Abject Bodies
7. Heterosexual Privilege and the Weaponization of Abject Sexualities, Gleiton Matheus Bonfante
8. Abjection and Subjection: The Banality of Sexual Hegemony, Chloe Brotherton and Eric Louis Russell
Conclusion: The Languages of Writing Oneself: A Queer Take on the Speaking Subject, Jonathan Alexander
Afterword: Critical Sexuality Studies and Lavender Languages Inquiry, Working Together in Dialogue, William Leap (Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Michelle Marzullo (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA)
Index
