{"product_id":"bisexuality-and-queer-theory-9781138817425","title":"Bisexuality and Queer Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording 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 practices normalized and others marginalized? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative analytical tools in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes identity and social structures that take heteronormativity for granted  that do not question the social construction of heterosexuality as normative in relation to its oppositional binary, homosexuality. At the same time, bisexuality is a practice, identity, and orientation that challenges the binary logic around which cultural notions of sexuality are organized. It is a portal to the imagination of a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections, \u003cem\u003eSerena Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Jonathan Alexander \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Theories \u003c\/strong\u003e2. Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory, \u003cem\u003eApril S. Callis \u003c\/em\u003e3. Queerying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory, \u003cem\u003eMaria Gurevich, Helen Bailey and Jo Bower \u003c\/em\u003e4. Reclaiming Sexual Difference: What Queer Theory Can’t Tell Us About Sexuality, \u003cem\u003eSusan Feldman \u003c\/em\u003e5. Bisexuality In Psychoanalytic Theory: Interpreting the Resistance, \u003cem\u003eEsther Rapoport \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Readings \u003c\/strong\u003e6. Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality, Matters, \u003cem\u003eLaura Erickson-Schroth and Jennifer Mitchell \u003c\/em\u003e7. Refusing Butler’s Binary: Bisexuality and Performative Melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway, \u003cem\u003eNowell Marshall \u003c\/em\u003e8. Plural Happiness: Bi- and Poly-Triangulation in Balasko’s French Twist, \u003cem\u003eSerena Anderlini-D’Onofrio \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Socialities \u003c\/strong\u003e9. ‘All the world is queer save thee and me…’: Defining Queer and Bi at a Critical Sexology Seminar, \u003cem\u003eMeg Barker, Christina Richards and Hellen Bowes-Catton \u003c\/em\u003e10. Adjusting the Borders: Bisexual Passing and Queer Theory, \u003cem\u003eJessa Lingel \u003c\/em\u003e11. Compulsory Bisexuality? The Challenges of Modern Sexual Fluidity, \u003cem\u003eBreanna Fahs \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Responses \u003c\/strong\u003e12. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bisexual, \u003cem\u003eDavid Halperin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885288468823,"sku":"9781138817425","price":48.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138817425.jpg?v=1722535750","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bisexuality-and-queer-theory-9781138817425","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}