 |
GetTextbooks.co.uk
Compare Prices & Save up to 90% |
|
|
|
| Login | Sign up | My Wish List |
 | | Identity without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) by Mariam Fraser ISBN-10: 9780521623575 ISBN-10: 0-521-62357-X ISBN-13: 9780521623575 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-62357-5 Hardcover 1999-05-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
Editorials | ||
Product Description 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 such 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 construction of bisexuality offers contemporary theories, it also critiques Foucault's work. | ||
Book Description Situated at the cross-roads of feminism, queer theory and post-structuralist debates around identity, this is not a book about Simone de Beauvoir, but, rather, a book which 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 like individuality constrain attempts to deconstruct the self and prevent bisexuality being understood as an identity. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari to see what this construction of bisexuality offers contemporary theories, it also critiques Foucault's work. | ||