A history of bisexuality / Steven Angelides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angelides, Steven.

Series:

Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society

The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bisexuality.

Homosexuality.

Heterosexuality.

Physical Description:

ix, 281 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Summary:

Why is bisexuality the object of such skepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, theory, and politics of sexuality. With A History of Bisexuality, Steven Angelides explores the reasons why, and invites us to rethink our preconceptions about sexual identity. Retracing the evolution of sexology, and revisiting modern epistemological categories of sexuality in psychoanalysis, gay liberation, social constructionism, queer theory, biology, and human genetics, Angelides argues that bisexuality has functioned historically as the structural other to sexual identity itself, undermining assumptions about heterosexuality and homosexuality.

In a book that will become the center of debate about the nature of sexuality for years to come, A History of Bisexuality compels us to rethink contemporary discourses of sexual theory and politics.

Contents:

Introducing bisexuality

Science and the invention of (bi)sexuality

"The unsolved figure in the carpet"

The pink threat

The repressed returns

Sexuality and subjection

The queer intervention

Beyond sexuality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.

ISBN:

0226020894

0226020908

OCLC:

45634410