Identity
Without Selfhood : Simone De Beauvoir and Bisexuality (Cambridge
Cultural Social Studies) by Mariam
Fraser
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
