Communicative Sexualities
Subtitle
A Communicology of Sexual Experience
This book proved an argument for, and illustration of, how to pursue the direct study of students' lived experiences of sexuality in a classroom or academic setting. It illustrates how communicology, and its methodological practice of semiotic phenomenology, allows for a sustained and rigorous study of the meaningfulness of sexual experience as it manifests in the immediate, concrete and embodied realities in the lives of those taking up such a study. Examples from actual classroom experience allow for a detailed consideration of the applied research methodology, as well as the ethical issues involved in making students' experiences of sexuality the main subject of the course.
Bio
Jacqueline Martinez is an associate professor and the faculty head of the languages and cultures faculty in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. She studies communication as it mediates the relationships among personal experience, social practices and cultural histories.
Praise for this book
Theoretically sophisticated and grounded in the lived realities of sexual experience, "Communicative Sexualities" provides readers with important tools to examine and understand their own embodied sexualities within larger social, cultural and political contexts. This volume is a significant contribution to the study of sexualities in the communication discipline.
Gust A Yep Professor of communication, San Francisco State University
It is exciting to see this valuable new textbook on sexuality and communication ... The central role of communication in the interrelationships of the personal and cultural is highlighted throughout, and the concluding chapter guides the reader to a deeper recognition of the individual, interpersonal and societal implications of ethical communication of and in sexual experiences versus the violence of communication that is unethical. It is a message we should not ignore.
Karen E. Lovass Professor of communication, San Francisco State University
