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Language and sexuality
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ISBN: 0521009693 0521804337 1107131022 0511643152 1282389327 9786612389320 0511791178 0511077939 0511561350 0511202776 0511076363 9780521804332 9780521009690 9780511077937 9780511076367 9780511791178 9780511202773 9781107131026 661238932X 9781282389328 9780511643156 9780511561351 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This lively and accessible textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone sex, from sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, the book provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of 'sexuality', the book encompasses not only issues surrounding sexual orientation and identity but also questions about the discursive construction of sexuality and the verbal expression of erotic desire. Cameron and Kulick contextualize their findings within current research in linguistics, anthropology and psychology, and bring together relevant theoretical debates on sexuality, gender, identity, desire, meaning and power. Topical and entertaining, this much-needed textbook will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and gender/sexuality studies, as well as anyone interested in the relationship between language and sex.


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La face cachée du genre : langage et pouvoir des normes
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ISBN: 9782878545685 2878545680 2878549481 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris : Presses Sorbonne nouvelle,


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Thinking sex with the Early Moderns
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ISBN: 9780812247299 Year: 2016 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press


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Masculinities and third gender : the origins and nature of an institutionalized gender otherness in the ancient Near East
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ISBN: 9783868351958 3868351957 Year: 2016 Publisher: Münster : Ugarit-Verlag,

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The aim of this book is to track a distinct human phenomenon in the history of the ancient Near East: persons who were born males, but under various social and historical circumstances their masculine identity was considered to be ambiguous. On the basis of this, these persons can be classified as belonging to a third gender They bore specific titles, and were engaged in cult or palace administration. The contexts of their documentation occasionally depict them as possessing or exhibiting traits that were uncharacteristic of the standard social expectations of men in Mesopotamia. The terms that describe these persons were grouped in numerous lexical lists, which supply us with the frame and boundaries of the present research. To a lesser extent, the grouping of these persons is apparent in narrative and literary compositions. The most notable of these titles were gala / kalû, assinnu, kurgarrû and lú-sag / ša rēši. Other similar titles that were documented less frequently were kulu'u, girseqû, tīru, SAG-UR-SAG, pilpilû, nāš pilaqqi, sinnišānu and parû. Their sexual and gender ambiguity was realized in numerous and diverse manners. Occasionally, it bore a clear physiological form, in the shape of castration; sometimes its attributes were external, such as cross-dressing; In other cases, it became apparent through typically feminine behavioral patterns, such as dancing, singing or lamenting. Last but not least, lack of procreativity constituted another form of gender ambiguity, as it contradicted one of the most important gender functionalities of people in the ancient Near East: the siring of offspring. Hence, the common denominator of all these figures appears to have been flawed manliness. Effeminacy was not necessarily the key factor in this case, as some of these figures seem to have been rather masculine. It was sufficient that these persons deviated enough from the customary model of ancient Near Eastern masculinity, in order to be considered as part of this third gender class. The concepts of social "otherness" are essential for demarcating social borders, which, in turn, define patterns of normative social conduct. The present research demonstrated that this human phenomenon of a third gender in the ancient Near East involved mainly the matter of social definitions. Social identity is defined by its limitations: where it begins and ends, and what exists beyond it. The strange, the extreme and the bizarre signify what common, hegemonic, people are not, and therefore mark who common, hegemonic, people actually are. These boundaries are constructed by using social mechanisms of norms and prohibitions. In this sense, the third gender figures were socially constructed, and served social needs of defining norms of conformity.


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Du projet au chantier : conditions de travail, qualité, performances économiques
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ISBN: 2870093845 9282586863 9782870093849 9789282586860 Year: 1989 Volume: EF/88/17/FR Publisher: Luxembourg : Office des publications officielles des communautés européennes = Office for official publications of the European communities = OPOCE,

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A l'heure où la perspective de la réalisation du grand marché intérieur en 1992 rend indispensable le renforcement de la cohésion économique et sociale, il est important de souligner que les conditions de travail constituent non seulement un enjeu fondamental mais aussi une condition essentielle de la compétivité. Loin de se résumer à une série de coûts a priori ou a posteriori, l'amélioration des conditions de travail et de la sécurité constitue au contraire un gisement de productivité et d'amélioration des performances. De de ce fait, logiques sociales et logiques économiques ne sont pas nécessairement antagonistes. Elles sont au contraire convergentes et le présent ouvrage met en lumière ces convergences et leurs enjeux dans le secteur de la construction.


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Intersexion : langues romanes, langues et genre
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ISBN: 9783862883202 3862883205 Year: 2012 Volume: 12 Publisher: Muenchen : Lincom Europa,

Sprache - Erotik - Sexualität
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ISBN: 3503049908 9783503049905 Year: 2001 Volume: 166 Publisher: Berlin Erich Schmidt Verlag

The handbook of historical linguistics
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ISBN: 0631225021 0631195718 1405127473 9781405127479 9780631195719 9781118732212 9781118732267 9781118732304 1780341849 047075639X 9786610284269 1282343351 1405166207 9786612343353 0470756330 0470700319 1280284269 140512296X 0470756942 1280284609 1780341857 047070361X 1405123206 9786610284603 0470756705 063122503X Year: 2005 Volume: 13 Publisher: Malden ; Oxford ; Carlton : Hoboken, NJ, USA : Blackwell, Wiley

The language and sexuality reader
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ISBN: 0415363071 9780415363075 041536308X 9780415363082 0203013379 9780203013373 Year: 2005 Publisher: Abingdon, [England] ; N.Y. : Routledge,

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The Language and Sexuality Reader is the first collection to bring together historical and contemporary writings from a range of academic disciplines to explore the connections between sex as a domain of human experience and the language we use to speak and write about it. The topics addressed by contributors include gay slang and gay speech styles; the language of drag performances, personal ads, Nepali love letters and Japanese schoolgirl fiction; what counts as 'having sex' and whether 'marriage' has to be heterosexual by definition; the communication of sexual desire, consent and refusal; and how heterosexuals reveal themselves in ordinary conversation. Bringing together material from fields including anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, medicine and psychology, this text offers a variety of approaches to its subject.

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