Reading Sexualities by Donald E. Hall

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 weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to examine the ethical, critical and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters; read the changing landscape of sexual identity, finding cause for optimism; and urge readers to embrace a far-reaching dialogic practice as a way of furthering radical social change. 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 reading the self through the perspective of the other.