{"product_id":"outspeak-sean-p-oconnell-9780791447383","title":"Outspeak: Narrating Identities That Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the pleasures, perils, and promises of professing one's sexual identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to claim to be gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, straight, or to belong to some racial category, or to be a teenager or a senior citizen? Taking as its focal point the articulation of sexual orientation, Outspeak adopts a narrative approach to understanding professions of identity that does justice to the fears of those who recognize the potential of such labels to oppress, marginalize, and silence. It explores the ways in which professing identity speaks the truth and demands a hearing. In so doing, it addresses the fears of people who see attacks on \"gay\" and \"lesbian\" identities as erasing and silencing those who find a voice through them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo understand the implications of the narrative structure of identity for liberatory praxis, O'Connell enlists the work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and engages continental thinkers such as Ricoeur, Levinas, Heidegger, and Lyotard, whose ideas add much to the development of a narrative theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean P. O'Connell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791447383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791447383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 5.84w x 0.57d","brand":"Sean P. O'Connell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453387616511,"sku":"9780791447383","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_456d50de-47cb-4158-94ac-6804ca374359.jpg?v=1777299983","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/outspeak-sean-p-oconnell-9780791447383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}