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Sexed Texts explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts that are often discussed separately, although in practice are closely intertwined. The book draws on a range of theoretical perspectives and published research including performativity theory, feminism, queer studies, psychoanalytical theory, Marxism, social constructionism and essentialism.

Language and sex. --- Sex and language --- Sex --- Language and sex

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Discourse analysis --- Feminism --- Language and sex --- Poststructuralism

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Language and sex. --- Language and languages --- Sex differences.

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This volume is a collection of papers on aspects of language and sexuality as understood and problematized by scholars in linguistics and anthropology. The idea behind this volume was to bring together people working on language-and-sexuality issues from within these two fields given that linguistic research on this topic is, more often than not, fieldwork-related and anthropological research characteristically focuses on issues of sexual onomasiology and semasiology, a concomitant of its pre...

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This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire.The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies and cultural studies. They examine and probe:* language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire* language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire* attitudes and assumptions about romantic and sexual desire embodied in English* implications for the construction of romantic and sexual identity.

Language and sex. --- Social Science. --- Language / Linguistics. --- Language and sex --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Sex and language --- Sex