Situated at the crossroads of feminism, queer theory, and poststructuralist debates around identity, this is not a book about Simone de Beauvoir, but, rather, a book that addresses the different ways in which she is constructed as an intelligible "self" by academics, biographers and the media. It shows how key Western concepts such as individuality constrain attempts to deconstruct the self and prevent bisexuality being understood as an identity. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari to see what this construction of bisexuality offers contemporary theories, it also critiques Foucault's work.
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"If any text marks the coming of age of bisexuality as an academic subject, Mariam Fraser's Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality may be the one." Bi Books
"Fraser's book makes a major contribution to recent scholarship in feminist, poststructural, and queer theories of subjectivity, the body, and identity..." Janet Wirth-Cauchon, American Journal of Sociology
"Fraser's book makes a major contribution to recent scholarship in feminist, poststructural, and queer theories of subjectivity, the body, and identity..." Janet Wirth-Cauchon, American Journal of Sociology
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Situated at the cross-roads of feminism, queer theory and post-structuralist debates around identity, this is not a book about Simone de Beauvoir, but, rather, a book which addresses the different ways in which she is constructed as an intelligible 'self' by academics, biographers and the media. It shows how key Western concepts like individuality constrain attempts to deconstruct the self and prevent bisexuality being understood as an identity. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari to see what this construction of bisexuality offers contemporary theories, it also critiques Foucault's work.
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It is not unusual in much contemporary, and particularly post-structuralist, social and cultural theory to preface any analysis of 'identity' or 'subjectivity' with the caveat that these are subject positions without essence and, to a greater or lesser extent, to assert selfhood itself is socially and/or discursively constructed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Margaret Simons, Nelson Algren, The Times, Judith Butler, Nikolas Rose, The Sunday Times, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sylvie Le Bon, The Economist, Bodies That Matter, Left Bank, Margaret Crosland, Paul Ricoeur, Toril Moi, Independent Weekend, Jacqueline Rose, United States New!
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It is not unusual in much contemporary, and particularly post-structuralist, social and cultural theory to preface any analysis of 'identity' or 'subjectivity' with the caveat that these are subject positions without essence and, to a greater or lesser extent, to assert selfhood itself is socially and/or discursively constructed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Margaret Simons, Nelson Algren, The Times, Judith Butler, Nikolas Rose, The Sunday Times, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sylvie Le Bon, The Economist, Bodies That Matter, Left Bank, Margaret Crosland, Paul Ricoeur, Toril Moi, Independent Weekend, Jacqueline Rose, United States New!
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- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir on 22 pages
- Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir on 22 pages
- Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler on 6 pages
- The Bisexual Imaginary : Representation, Identity and Desire by Bi Academic Intervention on 5 pages
- In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy) by Kathy Acker in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender by Clare Hemmings in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Politics of Moralizing by Jane Bennett on page 109
- The Politics of Moralizing by Jane Bennett on page 109
- Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender by Clare Hemmings in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Claudia Card in Back Matter
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