List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Doing Language and Power: Lavender Languages, Critical Sexuality Studies, and Everyday Life, Michelle Marzullo (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA) and William Leap (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Part I: Power
1. 'Putes Feministas': Inclusive Language and Social Media Activism, Leyla Savloff (Elon University, USA)
2. Constructed Speech and Figures of Childhood in Arizona Lawmaker Comments About Anti-Queer Legislation, Sean Nonnenmacher
Part II: Concepts
3. The Language of "Reading": Competition, Camaraderie, and Competence in a Local Drag Community, Aiden Christopher VanderStouwe
4. Breaking the Rules of Guided Language, Megan Patricia Robertson (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)
Part III: Normativities
5. 'The Transgender Couple': Transnormativity and the Discourse of t4t, Lex Konnelly (University of South Carolina, USA) and Archie Crowley, (Elon University, USA)
6. Situational Variation in a Bigender Finnish Speaker's Idiolect: A Folk Linguistic Case Study, Meri Lindeman (University of Turku, Truku, Finland)
Part IV: Abject Bodies
7. Heterosexual Privilege and the Weaponization of Abject Sexualities, Gleiton Matheus Bonfante
8. Abjection and Subjection: The Banality of Sexual Hegemony, Chloe Brotherton and Eric Louis Russell
Conclusion: The Languages of Writing Oneself: A Queer Take on the Speaking Subject, Jonathan Alexander
Afterword: Critical Sexuality Studies and Lavender Languages Inquiry, Working Together in Dialogue, William Leap (Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Michelle Marzullo (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA)
Index

Michelle Marzullo is Chair and Professor in the Human Sexuality Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies, USA.

William L. Leap is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at American University, USA.

"Critical Sexuality Studies and Lavender Languages are joined for the first time in this volume to explore language use related to sexuality, gender, authority, and power in daily life. Chapters reveal how these different modes of inquiry can be combined to produce a new approach to analyzing language use, sexuality and gender, and discourse on authority and power"--