Sexualidades en disputa Book

The papers in this collection are written by academics for academics of very specialized areas; I’m not remotely qualified to assess them. Although many of the topics interest me, I lacked the background knowledge to get more than maybe about 60% of the value they offer an informed reader.
I have to say, though, that in at least once paper the difficulty lay in part in the very dense writing that some academics use. Surely not every word in a long sentence need be multisyllabic?