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EDITOR: Merl Storr
PUBLISHER: Routledge
DATE: March 25, 1999
PAGES: 256
ISBN: 9780415166607

Bisexuality: A Critical Reader

edited by Merl Storr

Bisexuality: A Critical Reader presents the essential primary texts on bisexuality from the last 100 years. Exploring this often controversial concept from a range of perspectives, this book places bisexuality in its historical and cultural context and explores its many meanings and uses.

The collection includes sections on:

the genealogy of the concept of bisexuality
bisexual identities and bisexual behaviors
bisexual epistemologies
the inner dynamics of bisexuality and its possible future in cyberspace

Presenting work by leading scholars in an easy-to-read format, Merl Storr’s introductions give a straightforward overview of the texts included and sets them clearly in the context of debates on bisexuality.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Editors introduction
PART 1: GENEOLOGY OF THE CONCEPT OF BISEXUALITY
- Henry Havelock Ellis: Extracts from the Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume I: Sexual Inversions (1897) and from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume II: Sexual Inversions (1915)
- Sigmund Freud: Extract from Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: 1. The Sexual Aberrations (1905)
- Wilhelm Stekel: Extracts from Bi-Sexual Love (1920)
- Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin: Extracts from Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)
- Fritz Klein: Extracts from The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978)
- Amanda Udis-Kessler: Notes on the Kinsey Scale and Other Measures of Sexuality (1992)
PART 2: BISEXUAL IDENTITY AND BISEXUAL BEHAVIOR
- Philip W. Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz: Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues (1977)
- J. M. Carrier: Mexican Male Bisexuality (1985)
- Wiresit Sittitrai, Tim Brown and Sirapone Virulrak: Extracts from Patterns of Bisexuality in Thailand (1991)
- Sue George: Extracts from Women and Bisexuality (1993)
- Jan Clausen: Extract from My Interesting Condition (1990)
- Mariana Valverde: Extract from Sex, Power and Pleasure (1985)
PART 3: BISEXUALI EPISTEMOLOGIES
- Jo Eadie: Extracts from Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bi/Sexual Politics (1993)
- Marjorie Garber: Extracts from Vice Versa: Bisexuality and Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995)
- Maria Pramaggiore: Extracts from Epistemologies of the Fence (1996)
- Yasmin Prabhudas: Bisexuals and People of Mixed-Race: Arbiters of Change (1996)
- Elizabeth D. Däumer: Extract from Queer Ethics; or the Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics (1992)
- Gilbert H. Herdt: Extract from A Comment on Cultural Attributes and Fluidity of Bisexuality (1984)
- Amber Ault: Ambiguous Identity in an Unambiguous Sex/Gender Structure: The Case of Bisexual Women (1996)
PART 4: DIFFERENCES
- Hélène Cixous: Extract from The Laughs of the Medusa (1975)
- Clare Hemmings: Extract from Locating Bisexual Identities: Discourses of Bisexuality and Contemporary Feminist Theory (1995)
- Ann Kaloski: Extracts from Bisexuals Making Out with Cyborgs: Politics, Pleasure, Con/fusion (1997)
Bibliography
Index