RePresenting Bisexualities : : Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire / / ed. by Donald E. Hall, Maria Pramaggiore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Cagle, Chris,; Carlston, Erin G.,; Carroll, Trad,; Fraser, Mariam,; Hall, Donald E.,; Knopf, Marcy Jane,; Loftus, Brian,; Michel, Frann,; Namaste, Ki,; Plessis, Michael du,; Pramaggiore, Maria,; Yukman, Lidia,
• HerausgeberIn: Hall, Donald E.,; Pramaggiore, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks to answer these questions, integrating a recognition of bisexual desire with new theories of gender and sexuality. Despite the breakthroughs in gender studies and queer studies of recent years, bisexuality has remained largely unexamined. Problematic sexual images are usually attributed either to homosexual or heterosexual desire while bisexual readings remain unexplored. The essays found in RePresenting Bisexualities discuss fluid sexualities through a variety of readings from the fence, covering texts from Emily Dickinson to Nine Inch Nails. Each author contributes to the collection a unique view of sexual fluidity and transgressive desire. Taken together, these essays provide the most comprehensive bisexual theory reader to date.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Bl-ntroduction I Epistemologies of the Fence -- Bl-ntroduction II Epistemologies of the Fence -- Part One. Unthinking Queer/Theorizing Bisexually -- Chapter 1 Blatantiy Bisexual; or, Unthinking Queer Theory -- Chapter 2 Do Bats Eat Cats? Reading What Bisexuality Does -- Chapter 3 From Performativity to Interpretation: Toward a Social Semiotic Account of Bisexuality -- Part Two. ImPrinting Bisexualities: Literary Readings -- Chapter 4 Graphic Sexuality and the Erasure of a Polymorphous Perversity -- Chapter 5 Loving Dora: Rereading Freud through H. D.'s Her -- Chapter 6 Bi-nary Bi-sexuality: Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies -- Chapter 7 Versatile Interests: Reading Bisexuality in The Friendly Young Ladies -- Chapter 8 Invisible Sissy: The Politics of Masculinity in African American Bisexual Narrative -- Part Three. Biopia: Perspectives on Bisexual Visual Culture -- Chapter 9 Biopia: Bisexuality and the Crisis of Visibility in a Queer Symbolic -- Chapter 10 Rough Trade: Sexual Taxonomy in Postwar America -- Chapter 11 Framing Contention: Bisexuality Displaced -- Chapter 12 Straddling the Screen: Bisexual Spectatorship and Contemporary Narrative Film -- Index