Bisexuality: A Critical Reader
Bisexuality: A Critical Reader presents the essential primary texts on bisexuality from the last 100 years in an easy-to-read format. 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. Merl Storr's introductions give a straightforward overview of the texts included and sets them clearly in the context of debates on bisexuality.\ This collection includes pieces...
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Bisexuality: A Critical Reader brings together for the first time in one volume some of the most important and influential writings on bisexuality of the last 100 years. The pieces in this unique collection explore this slippery and often controversial concept from a range of perspectives, placing it in its historical and cultural contexts and interrogating its many meanings and uses. The reader is divided into four sections: *Genealogy of the Concept of Bisexuality traces the ancestry of the concept and the ways in which its meanings have changed since the 1890s *Bisexual Identities and Bisexual Behaviors samples some of the most important international research from the 1970s to the 1990s, discussing what it means to call oneself--or not to call oneself--"bisexual." *Bisexual Epistemologies examines recent arguments that bisexuality is a revolutionary concept with a dangerous potential to subvert old ways of thinking about gender and sexuality *Differences explores the inner dynamics of bisexuality and its possible futures in cyberspace. Truly unique and invaluable, The Bisexuality Reader adds a critical voice in the study of sexuality.
List of figuresA note on the textAcknowledgementsEditor's introduction1Pt. IGenealogy of the concept of bisexuality131Extracts from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume I: Sexual Inversion (1897) and from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume II: Sexual Inversion (1915)152Extract from Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: 1. The Sexual Aberrations (1905)203Extracts from Bi-Sexual Love (1920)284Extracts from Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)315Extracts from The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy (1978)386Notes on the Kinsey Scale and Other Measures of Sexuality (1992)49Pt. IIBisexual identity and bisexual behaviour577Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues (1977)598Mexican Male Bisexuality (1985)759Extracts from Patterns of Bisexuality in Thailand (1991)8710Extracts from Women and Bisexuality (1993)10011Extract from My Interesting Condition (1990)10712Extract from Sex, Power and Pleasure (1985)112Pt. IIIBisexual epistemologies11713Extracts from Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bi/Sexual Politics (1993)11914Extracts from Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995)13815Extracts from Epistemologies of the Fence (1996)14416Bisexuals and People of Mixed-Race: Arbiters of Change (1996)15017Extract from Queer Ethics; or, the Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics (1992)15218Extract from A Comment on Cultural Attributes and Fluidity of Bisexuality (1984)16219Ambiguous Identity in an Unambiguous Sex/Gender Structure: The Case of Bisexual Women (1996)167Pt. IVDifferences18720Extract from The Laugh of the Medusa (1975)18921Extract from Locating Bisexual Identities: Discourses of Bisexuality and Contemporary Feminist Theory (1995)19322Extracts from Bisexuals Making Out with Cyborgs: Politics, Pleasure, Con/fusion (1997)201Bibliography211Index224
