Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality
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 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...
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Post-structuralist-queer theory of the self drawing on representations of de Beauvoir and her bisexuality.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction11Identity and selfhood42Identity and embodiment253Telling tales474Preclusion795Displacement1026Erasure1247Lose your face141Conclusion164Notes171References197Index210
