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Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges book cover

1st Edition

Bisexuality and Queer Theory Intersections, Connections and Challenges

Edited By Jonathan Alexander, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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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 often messy flows of desire and practices of love, on the other? How and why are some sexual, erotic, and intimate... Read more

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

Biography

Jonathan Alexander is Professor of English and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His books include Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies (2008, with Deborah Meem and Michelle Gibson) and Literacy, Sexuality and Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (2008).

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio is a scholar, writer, activist, teacher, and cultural theorist.　 Her book of ecosexual theory, Gaia and the New Politics of Love is a 2010 Nautilus Winner. She is editor of BiTopia (2011, with Brian Zamboni), Bisexuality and Queer Theory (2010, with Jonathan Alexander), Plural Loves: Designs for Bi and Poly Living (2005), and Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective (2003). Her memoir, Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, was a 2007 Lambda finalist. She is Professor of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.

"Stunningly rich" says a respondent, David Halperin.

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