Queering language, gender and sexuality / edited by Tommaso M. Milani.

Other author Milani, Tommaso M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSheffield, UK : Equinox, 2018.
Descriptionviii, 319 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
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Contents Queering language, gender and sexuality: theory and practice / Tommaso M. Milani -- Part I: Identity and desire. Models of gay male identity and the marketing of 'gay language' in foreign-language phrasebooks for gay men / Rusty Barrett ; The desire for identity and the identity of desire: language, gender and sexuality in the Greek context / Costas Canakis ; Incomprehensible language? Language, ethnicity and heterosexual masculinity in a Swedish school / Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson -- Part II: Beyond binaries? Do bodies matter? Travestis' embodiment of (trans)gender identity through the manipulation of the Brazilian Portuguese grammatical gender system / Rodrigo Borba and Ana Cristina Ostermann ; Butch camp: on the discursive construction of a queer identity position / Veronika Koller ; 'The other kind of coming out': transgender people and the coming out narrative genre / Lal Zimman -- Part III. Unpacking heteronormativity. Constructing hegemonic masculinities in South Africa: the discourse and rhetoric of heteronormativity / Russell Luyt ; Online constructions of metrosexuality and masculinities: a membership categorisation analysis / Matthew Hall, Brendon Gough, Sarah Seymour-Smith and Susan Hansen ; A bit too skinny for me: women's homosocial constructions of heterosexual desire in online dating / Kristine Køhler Mortensen -- Part IV. Gender, sexuality and space. Normal straight gays: lexical collocations and ideologies of masculinity in personal ads of Serbian gay teenagers / Ksenija Bogetiâc ; Language, sexuality and place: the view from cyberspace / Brian W King ; Homophobia as moral geography / William L. Leap.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017022681
ISBN9781781794937 (hardcover)
ISBN9781781794944 (softcover)