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This volume showcases ten years of research on language, gender and sexuality informed by queer theory. In line with a queer dislike for any normalizing discourse and practice, the book gives a multi-faceted set of applications of queer theoretical ideas to linguistic analysis. The chapters that open the book engage with theoretical debates about identity and desire, and the relationships between these concepts. The following contributions offer linguistic precision to two key areas of queer theoretical interest, namely the critique of heteronormativity and the deconstruction of the gender binary. The final chapters pick up on some of the thematic threads of the book, but locate them within recent developments in the study of language and space. With examples from a variety of sociopolitical contexts - Denmark, Greece, Serbia, Sweden, South Africa, USA - and discursive sites - phrasebooks, school interactions, literary texts, as well as online dating sites and chats - the book gives a critical overview of how gender, sexuality and power can be queered through linguistic analysis.
Contents
IntroductionQueering Language, Gender and Sexuality: Theory and PracticeTommaso M. MilaniIdentity and Desire1. Models of Gay Male Identity and the Marketing of 'Gay Language' in Foreign-Language Phrasebooks for Gay MenRusty Barrett, University of Kentucky2. Incomprehensible Language? Language, Ethnicity and Heterosexual Masculinity in a Swedish School Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson, University of Stockholm3. The Desire for Identity and the Identity of Desire: Language, Gender and Sexuality in the Greek Context Costas Canakis, University of AegeanUnpacking Heteronormativity4. Constructing Hegemonic Masculinities in South Africa: The Discourse and Rhetoric of Heteronormativity Russell Luyt, University of Winchester5. On-line Constructions of Metrosexuality and Masculinities: A Membership Categorization Analysis Matthew Hall, University of Derby6. A Bit too Skinny for Me: Women's Homosocial Constructions of Heterosexual Desire in Online DatingKristine Kohler Mortensen, University of California, Santa BarbaraBeyond Binaries?7. Do Bodies Matter? Travestis' Embodiment of (Trans)Gender Identity through the Manipulation of the Brazilian Portuguese Grammatical Gender System Rodrigo Borba, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and Ana Cristina Ostermann, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos8. Butch Camp: On the Discursive Construction of a Queer Identity Position Veronika Koller, Lancaster University9. The Other Kind of Coming Out: Transgender People and the Coming out Narrative Genre Lal Zimman, University of California, Santa BarbaraGender, Sexuality and Space10. Language, Sexuality and Place: The View from CyberspaceBrian W. King, City University of Hong Kong11. Homophobia as Moral Geography William L. Leap, American University12. Normal Straight Gays: Lexical Collocations and Ideologies of Masculinity in Personal Ads of Serbian Gay Teenagers Ksenija Bogetic, University of Belgrade
