Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer StudiesReading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to:
Reading Sexualities shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hall argues that by approaching sexual diversity with openness and humility, we become active participants in the politically urgent process of reading the self through the perspective of the other. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Sexual hermeneutics | 17 |
2 Desirably queer futures | 38 |
3 Transcending the self | 59 |
4 Global conversations | 78 |
5 Radical sexuality and ethical responsibility | 98 |
How sex changes | 122 |
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Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies Donald E. Hall Limited preview - 2012 |
Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies Donald E. Hall Limited preview - 2012 |
Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies Donald Eugene Hall No preview available - 2009 |
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