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:
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.
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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
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