Sexed Texts - Language, Gender and Sexuality - Paul Baker
Maintaining boundaries: hegemony and erasure
Sexed Texts - Language, Gender and Sexuality - Paul Baker
Paul Baker [+]
Lancaster University
Paul Baker is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. His previous books include Public Discourses of Gay Men, Hello Sailor and Using Corpora for Discourse Analysis. He has also published on the subject of Polari, a lost language variety used by gay men.
Description
Topics include: Introduction; Hegemonic masculinity; Hegemonic femininity?; Exaggerating binaries: the erasure of bisexuality; Conclusion