Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader is a groundbreaking anthology on the role of communication in the construction and performance of sexualities in interpersonal contexts and in public discourses. Editors Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins bring together an interdisciplinary collection which include excerpts from foundational works, recent journal articles, and original pieces written specifically for this text.Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader is a groundbreaking anthology on the role of communication in the construction and performance of sexualities in interpersonal contexts and in public discourses. Editors Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins bring together an interdisciplinary collection which include excerpts from foundational works, recent journal articles, and original pieces written specifically for this text. There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader.? The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one's understanding is not easy to describe.? Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson.? The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time.
The Book ReviewForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Sl3
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