Identity without Selfhood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521623575)

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.

Author: Mariam Fraser
ISBN-10: 052162357X
ISBN-13: 9780521623575
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/22/1999
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.11w x 0.59d