Reading Sexualities

Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices priorities and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts from novels to travel narratives to internet porn Donald e. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to: reading Sexualities shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and the work of hans-georg gadamer hall argues that by approaching sexual diversity with openness and humility we become active participants in the politically urgent process of reading the self through the perspective of the other.