Bisexuality and queer theory : intersections, connections and challenges /
"According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a 'crisis in contemporary sexual definition'. What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the oft...
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Table of Contents:
- Bisexuality and queer theory : an introduction / Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
- pt. 1. Theories.
- Playing with Butler and Foucault : bisexuality and queer theory / April S. Callis
- Querying theory and politics : the epistemic (dis)location of bisexuality within queer theory / Maria Gurevich, Helen Bailey and Jo Bower
- Reclaiming sexual difference : what queer theory can't tell us about sexuality / Susan Feldman
- Bisexuality in psychoanalytic theory: interpreting the resistance / Esther Rapoport
- pt. 2. Readings.
- Queering queer theory, or why bisexuality matters / Laura Erickson-Schroth and Jennifer Mitchell
- Refusing Butler's binary : bisexuality and performative melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway / Nowell Marshall
- Plural happiness : bi- and poly-triangulations in Balasko's French twist / Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
- pt. 3. Socialities.
- "All the world is queer save thee and me ..." : defining queer and bi at a critical sexology seminar / Meg Barker, Christina Richards and Helen Bowes-Catton
- Adjusting the borders : bisexual passing and queer theory / Jessa Lingel
- Bisexuals in relationships : uncoupling intimacy from gender ontology / Malena Gustavson
- Compulsory bisexuality? : the challenges of modern sexual fluidity / Breanne Fahs
- pt. 4. Responses.
- Thirteen ways of looking at a bisexual / David M. Halperin.