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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