Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780415686716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 276 str.

Jonathan Alexander; Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

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This collection presents bisexuality and queer theory as two parallel thought collectives that have made significant contributions to cultural discourses about sexual and amorous practices.

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1. Introduction: Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Jonathan Alexander  Part I: Theories  2. Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory, April S. Callis  3. Queerying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory, Maria Gurevich, Helen Bailey and Jo Bower  4. Reclaiming Sexual Difference: What Queer Theory Can’t Tell Us About Sexuality, Susan Feldman  5. Bisexuality In Psychoanalytic Theory: Interpreting the Resistance, Esther Rapoport  Part II: Readings  6. Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality, Matters, Laura Erickson-Schroth and Jennifer Mitchell  7. Refusing Butler’s Binary: Bisexuality and Performative Melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway, Nowell Marshall  8. Plural Happiness: Bi- and Poly-Triangulation in Balasko’s French Twist, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio  Part III: Socialities  9. ‘All the world is queer save thee and me…’: Defining Queer and Bi at a Critical Sexology Seminar, Meg Barker, Christina Richards and Hellen Bowes-Catton  10. Adjusting the Borders: Bisexual Passing and Queer Theory, Jessa Lingel  11. Compulsory Bisexuality? The Challenges of Modern Sexual Fluidity, Breanna Fahs  Part IV: Responses  12. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bisexual, David Halperin