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Bisexuality: A Critical Reader presents the reader with the essential primary texts on bisexuality from the last 100 years. Exploring this often controversial concept from a range of perspectives, this book places bisexuality in its historical and cultural context and interrogates its many meanings and uses. This collection includes sections on: the genealogy of the concept of bisexuality bisexual identities and bisexual behaviours bisexual epistemologies the inner dynamics of bisexuality and its possible future in cyberspace. Bisexuality: A Critical Reader presents work by leading scholars in an easy-to-read format. Merl Storr's introductions give a straightforward overview of the texts included and sets them clearly in the context of debates on bisexuality.

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Author:   Merl Storr
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415166591

ISBN 10:   0415166594
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 March 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Henry Havelock Ellis: Extracts from 'Studies in the Pyschology of Sex' Volume 1, Sigmund Freud: Extract from 'Three essays on the Theory of Sexuality' Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin: Extracts from 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male' Marjorie Garber: Extracts from 'Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday' Helene Cixous: Extract from 'The Laugh of the Medusa'.

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One of the greatest successes of this book is to convince the reader that the meaning of the term [bisexuality] is decidedly not self-evident... Those who are curious and want to know about bisexuality without the triple X content will get a thorough and satisfying introduction. Students, scholars or anyone with an interest will also find the book is a source for further research... For the humanist or anyone interested in promoting a world that is accepting of plurality, reading this book is worth the effort. -R. Dorling Rouse, Humanist in Canada, Summer 2001 ... Merl Storr has combined theoretical and empirical writings on bisexuality from a variety of disciplines, resulting in an excellent source for examining not only the subject of bisexuality, but also the research itself.. -Jessica Nathanson, University of Buffalo, August-December 2000 ... the collection is a worthwhile one, and would be quite useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.. -Jessica Nathanson, University of Buffalo, August-December 2000

One of the greatest successes of this book is to convince the reader that the meaning of the term [bisexuality] is decidedly not self-evident... Those who are curious and want to know about bisexuality without the triple X content will get a thorough and satisfying introduction. Students, scholars or anyone with an interest will also find the book is a source for further research... For the humanist or anyone interested in promoting a world that is accepting of plurality, reading this book is worth the effort. <br>-R. Dorling Rouse, Humanist in Canada, Summer 2001 <br>... Merl Storr has combined theoretical and empirical writings on bisexuality from a variety of disciplines, resulting in an excellent source for examining not only the subject of bisexuality, but also the research itself.. <br>-Jessica Nathanson, University of Buffalo, August-December 2000 <br>... the collection is a worthwhile one, and would be quite useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.. <br>-Jessica Nathanson, University of Buffalo, August-December 2000 <br>

"""One of the greatest successes of this book is to convince the reader that the meaning of the term [bisexuality] is decidedly not self-evident... Those who are curious and want to know about bisexuality without the triple X content will get a thorough and satisfying introduction. Students, scholars or anyone with an interest will also find the book is a source for further research... For the humanist or anyone interested in promoting a world that is accepting of plurality, reading this book is worth the effort."" -R. Dorling Rouse, ""Humanist in Canada, Summer 2001 ...""Merl Storr has combined theoretical and empirical writings on bisexuality from a variety of disciplines, resulting in an excellent source for examining not only the subject of bisexuality, but also the research itself.."" -Jessica Nathanson, University of Buffalo, August-December 2000 ...""the collection is a worthwhile one, and would be quite useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.."" -Jessica Nathanson, University of Buffalo, August-December 2000"

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