Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality

by Paul Baker

Book Overview

Sexed Texts explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts often discussed separately but, in practice, closely intertwined. It locates sexuality and gender as socially constructed, and examines language use in terms of socio-historical factors, linking changing conceptualisations of identity, discourse and desire to theories surrounding regulation, globalisation, new technologies, marketisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845530756
• ISBN13: 9781845530754
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"