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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">New Book
Announcement: Winner of the 2014 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited
Volume</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Queer Excursions:
Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality</span></b></p>
<h3><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Edited
by Lal Zimman, Jenny L. Davis, and Joshua Raclaw</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Oxford
University Press, Studies in Language and Gender</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">256 Pages </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">ISBN:
9780199937318</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Queer
Excursions </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">explores and
challenges binaries between gender and sex, masculine and feminine, cis- and
transgender, and queer and normative by analyzing language use in a diverse
range of ethnographic contexts. The volume’s original linguistic analysis of
queer speech communities retheorizes both particular binaries and the larger
social logic of the binary central to queer and feminist theory.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Across scholarship on gender and
sexuality, binaries have been problematized as a symbol of the stigmatization
and erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters in <em>Queer
Excursions </em>offer a series of distinct perspectives on these binaries, as
well as on a number of other, less immediately apparent dichotomies that
permeate the gendered and sexual lives of speakers. Several chapters focus on
the limiting or misleading qualities of binaristic analyses, while others
suggest that binaries are a crucial component of social meaning within
particular communities of study. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Rather than simply accepting binary
structures as inevitable, or discarding them from our analyses entirely based
on their oppressive or reductionary qualities, this volume advocates for a
re-theorization of the binary that affords more complex and
contextually-grounded engagement with speakers' own orientations to dichotomous
systems. It is from this perspective that contributors identify a number of
diverging conceptualizations of binaries, including those that are non-mutually
exclusive, those that liberate in the same moment that they constrain, those
that are imposed implicitly by researchers, and those that re-contextualize
familiar divisions with innovative meanings. As a collection, <em>Queer
Excursions</em> argues that researchers must be careful to avoid the assumption
that our own preconceptions about binary social structures will be shared by
the communities we study.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b style><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Table
of Contents</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></u></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Opposites
attract: Theorizing binarity in sociocultural linguistics<br>
Jenny Davis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)<br>
Lal Zimman (Reed College)<br>
Joshua Raclaw (Metropolitan State University of Denver)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the gendered body in
talk about genitals among trans men<br>
Lal Zimman (Reed College)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">"Speech
creates a kind of commitment": Queering Hebrew<br>
Orit Bershtling (Haifa University)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">"More
than just 'gay Indians": Intersecting articulations of Two-Spirit gender,
sexuality, and indigenousness<br>
Jenny Davis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Language
and non-normative gender and sexuality in Indonesia<br>
Evelyn Blackwood (Purdue University)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sexual
subjectivities and lesbian and gay narratives of belonging in Israel<br>
Erez Levon (Queen Mary, University of London)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>7.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
sex machine, the full-body tattoo, and the hermaphrodite: Gay sexual cinema,
audience reception and fractal recursivity<br>
William Leap (American University)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>8.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Neither
in nor out: Taking the "T" out of the closet<br>
Elijah Edelman (University of Maryland, College Park) <br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>9.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Acting
like women, acted upon: Gender and agency in Hausa sexual narratives<br>
Rudolf P. Gaudio (State University of New York, Purchase)<br style>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style>10.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
emergence of the unmarked: Queer theory, language ideology, and formal linguistics<br>
Rusty Barrett (University of Kentucky)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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