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Anna Livia & Kira Hall (eds.), Queerly phrased: Language, gender, and sexuality. (Studies in sociolinguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 460. Pb $24.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Stephen O. Murray
Affiliation:
El Instituto Obregón, 1360 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107-3239, keelung@itsa.ucsf.edu
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This, the fourth American anthology about language and sexual minorities, is more consistently professional, more focused on written texts, less focused on explicating rhetorical effects, and considerably more focused on gender than its predecessors (Chesebro 1981, Ringer 1994, and Leap 1995). Why “sexuality” is included in the subtitle at all is a mystery. In contrast to Leap's pioneering collection, sexual practices are almost entirely invisible (inaudible?) herein. The editors claim to have “collected a series of articles that approach the study of language from the twin perspectives of gender and sexuality, conceived as separate but intricately linked categories” (p. 5); but it seems that, in utero, gender throttled sexuality (while sex, either in the sense of biological differences or in the sense of tactile contact, was never conceived).

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Book Review
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press