Fraser, Mariam.
Identity without Selfhood : Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality. - 1 online resource (228 pages) - Cambridge Cultural Social Studies . - Cambridge Cultural Social Studies .
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Identity and selfhood -- Foucault's neo-materialism -- Greco-Roman and early Christian techniques of the self -- Bisexuality -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir -- 2 Identity and embodiment -- Assujettissement -- Boundedness -- Aestheticisation: of identity, of politics -- 'What can a body do?' -- 3 Telling tales -- The author-function -- Life and work -- The unpublished truths and the published untruths -- Truth and the published texts -- The 'psy' complex -- Narrative identity -- Becoming de Beauvoir -- Contingencies -- Individuality, responsibility and psychoanalytic 'truths' -- Narrative closure -- 4 Preclusion -- 'There was no choice' -- Heterosexual closure -- Sex and gender -- Bisexuality-as-heterosexuality -- Sameness and selfhood -- Exceeding individuality -- 5 Displacement -- An 'ethics of seeing' -- The paint and oil of existentialism -- Being bohemian -- Postcards from France -- Post-cards from intellectual Paris -- Post-cards from bohemian cafés -- Heterosexual scandal -- Disclosure and revelation -- 6 Erasure -- Choice, responsibility and history -- Choice, responsibility and attitude -- Bisexuality: choice, responsibility and pleasure -- 7 Lose your face -- Representation, identity and passing -- The role of the other -- Sameness -- Identity without selfhood -- Difference -- A Body without Organs of bisexuality -- Conclusion -- Making things do things -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Identity and selfhood -- 2 Identity and embodiment -- 3 Telling tales -- 4 Preclusion -- 5 Displacement -- 6 Erasure -- 7 Lose your face -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
This book presents a post-structuralist-queer theory of the self drawing on representations of de Beauvoir and her bisexuality.
9780511150371
Bisexuality.
Electronic books.
HQ74 .F73 1999
306.765
Identity without Selfhood : Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality. - 1 online resource (228 pages) - Cambridge Cultural Social Studies . - Cambridge Cultural Social Studies .
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Identity and selfhood -- Foucault's neo-materialism -- Greco-Roman and early Christian techniques of the self -- Bisexuality -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir -- 2 Identity and embodiment -- Assujettissement -- Boundedness -- Aestheticisation: of identity, of politics -- 'What can a body do?' -- 3 Telling tales -- The author-function -- Life and work -- The unpublished truths and the published untruths -- Truth and the published texts -- The 'psy' complex -- Narrative identity -- Becoming de Beauvoir -- Contingencies -- Individuality, responsibility and psychoanalytic 'truths' -- Narrative closure -- 4 Preclusion -- 'There was no choice' -- Heterosexual closure -- Sex and gender -- Bisexuality-as-heterosexuality -- Sameness and selfhood -- Exceeding individuality -- 5 Displacement -- An 'ethics of seeing' -- The paint and oil of existentialism -- Being bohemian -- Postcards from France -- Post-cards from intellectual Paris -- Post-cards from bohemian cafés -- Heterosexual scandal -- Disclosure and revelation -- 6 Erasure -- Choice, responsibility and history -- Choice, responsibility and attitude -- Bisexuality: choice, responsibility and pleasure -- 7 Lose your face -- Representation, identity and passing -- The role of the other -- Sameness -- Identity without selfhood -- Difference -- A Body without Organs of bisexuality -- Conclusion -- Making things do things -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Identity and selfhood -- 2 Identity and embodiment -- 3 Telling tales -- 4 Preclusion -- 5 Displacement -- 6 Erasure -- 7 Lose your face -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
This book presents a post-structuralist-queer theory of the self drawing on representations of de Beauvoir and her bisexuality.
9780511150371
Bisexuality.
Electronic books.
HQ74 .F73 1999
306.765