Queer Callings - Mark D. Jordan

CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEFINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDSA passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender. Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his landmark book on the invention and early history of the category "sodomy," one that helped to decriminalize certain sexual acts in the United States and to remove the word sodomy from the updated version of a standard English translation of the Christian Bible. In Queer Callings, Jordan extends the same kind of illuminating critical analysis to present uses of "identity" with regard to sexual difference. While the stakes might not seem as high, he acknowledges, his newest history of sexuality is just as vital to a better present and future. Shaking up current conversations that focus on "identity language," this essential new book seeks to restore queer languages of desire by inviting readers to consider how understandings of "sexual identity" have shifted – and continue to shift – over time. Queer Callings re-reads texts in various genres – literary and political, religious and autobiographical – that have been preoccupied with naming sex/gender diversity beyond a scheme of LGBTQ identities. Engaging a wide range of literary and critical works concerned with sex/gender self-understanding in relation to "spiritual­ity," Jordan takes up the writings of Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Djuna
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