Presenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire
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Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks to answer these questions, integrating a recognition of bisexual desire with new theories of gender and sexuality. Despite the breakthroughs in gender studies and queer studies of recent years, bisexuality has remained largely unexamined. Problematic sexual images are usually attributed either to homosexual or heterosexual desire while bisexual readings remain unexplored. The essays found in RePresenting Bisexualities discuss fluid sexualities through a variety of readings from the fence, covering texts from Emily Dickinson to Nine Inch Nails. Each author contributes to the collection a unique view of sexual fluidity and transgressive desire. Taken together, these essays provide the most comprehensive bisexual theory reader to date.
AcknowledgmentsContributorsBI-ntroduction I: Epistemologies of the Fence1BI-ntroduction II: Epistemologies of the Fence8Ch. 1Blatantly Bisexual: or, Unthinking Queer Theory19Ch. 2Do Bats Eat Cats? Reading What Bisexuality Does55Ch. 3From Performativity to Interpretation: Toward a Social Semiotic Account of Bisexuality70Ch. 4Graphic Sexuality and the Erasure of a Polymorphous Perversity99Ch. 5Loving Dora: Rereading Freud through H. D.'s Her124Ch. 6Bi-nary Bi-sexuality: Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies142Ch. 7Versatile Interests: Reading Bisexuality in The Friendly Young Ladies165Ch. 8Invisible Sissy: The Politics of Masculinity in African American Bisexual Narrative180Ch. 9Biopia: Bisexuality and the Crisis of Visibility in a Queer Symbolic207Ch. 10Rough Trade: Sexual Taxonomy in Postwar America234Ch. 11Framing Contention: Bisexuality Displaced253Ch. 12Straddling the Screen: Bisexual Spectatorship and Contemporary Narrative Film272Index301
