Communicative Sexualities

A Communicology of Sexual Experience

Jacqueline M. Martinez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2011
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2535-9 (ISBN)

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Communicative Sexualities: Queer and Feminist Theories in Practice, by Jacqueline M. Martinez, provides an argument for and illustration of how to pursue the direct study of students' lived-experiences of sexuality in a classroom or academic setting. It illustrates how communicology, and its methodological practice of semiotic phenomenology, allows for a sustained and rigorous study of the meaningfulness of sexual experience as it becomes manifest in the immediate, concrete, and embodied realities in the lives of those taking up such a study. The generous use of extended examples from actual classroom experience allows for a detailed consideration of the applied research methodology, as well as the ethical issues involved in making students' lived-experience of sexuality the main subject matter of the course. A major concern of Communicative Sexualities is to make explicit the many presuppositions about sex, gender, and sexuality that students and professors bring into the classroom. Martinez's text features detailed discussions of how to study lived-experience sexuality as the subject matter of research. It considers the steps necessary in suspending presuppositions regarding sexuality and gender, and focuses particular attention on the many presuppositions associated with the heterosexual-homosexual binary. Sexuality is understood as inherently good, yet also capable of becoming a means of perpetuating human isolation and degradation as much as an experience of tremendously shared human intimacy and mutual recognition. Discussions of historical context, the fact of temporality, and the intersection of person and culture provide a basis for explicit discussions of semiotics and phenomenology in communicology. As an introductory text, Communicative Sexualities: Queer and Feminist Theories in Practice, by Jacqueline M. Martinez, is an excellent primer for the advanced study of communicology and semiotic phenomenology. It one of very few texts that provides both a theoretical or philosophical discussion of phenomenology with the study of sexuality and gender as an explicit subject matter.

Jacqueline M. Martinez is associate professor of communicology at Arizona State University, Phoenix.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 List of Figures Chapter 4 List of Tables Chapter 5 Chapter 1: An Introduction to Sexuality as Subject Matter Chapter 6 Chapter 2: Our Lived Experience as the Subject of Research Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Historicity and Temporality Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Semiotics in Communicology Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Phenomenology in Communicology Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Semiotic Phenomenology Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Semiotic Phenomenology Applied Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Cultural Ethics and Personal Obligations Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Author

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7391-2535-4 / 0739125354
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-2535-9 / 9780739125359
Zustand	Neuware