1st Edition
Reading Sexualities Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies
By Donald E. Hall
Copyright 2009
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reading 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:
examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and... Read more
Chapter 1 Sexual hermeneutics; Chapter 2 Desirably queer futures; Chapter 3 Transcending the self; Chapter 4 Global conversations; Chapter 5 Radical sexuality and ethical responsibility;
Biography
Donald E. Hall is Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at West Virginia University. He is a long-time political activist, and the author or editor of nine previous books in the fields of gender studies, higher education studies, and Victorian studies. These include Fixing Patriarchy, RePresenting Bisexualities, Queer Theories, and Subjectivity.
'A thoughtful and refreshingly pointed introduction to the principle questions quickening the present and the future of queer theory.' David L. Clark, McMaster University
