Sexualities & Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader

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.'uThe Book ReviewoThis groundbreaking reader will spark the development of new courses in communication and sexuality.a Students and teachers wanting to fully understand the constitutive and performative nature of communication will find few other books that meet their needs better than this one.oauR. Jeffrey Ringer, St. Cloud UniversityaaoSexualities and Communication in Everyday Life provides readers with a useful typology for comprehending the various shifts in thinking about sexual identities and communication that have occurred across time while it also provides a deft synthesis of the major issues and themes.aThe text puts an excellent breadth of essays--some newly acquired for this book, some previously published and germinalueasily into studentsAe and teachersAe hands.o uLesa Lockford, Bowling Green State Universityaa 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.aaKey Features:aThis collection (1) assists students in understanding the intersections of sexuality with other identity constructions; (2) introduces the concepts a