Bisexuality, heterosexuality, and wishful theory

Textual Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 523-539

  Dollimore, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bisexuality; Desire; Fantasy; Heterosexuality; Identity politics; Theory; Wishful theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746446640     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502369608582258     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Sue George, Women and Bisexuality (London: Scarlet Press, 1993):
2. Elisabeth Däumer, 'Queer ethics; or, the challenge of bisexuality to lesbian ethics', Hypatia 7. 4 (Fall 1992), pp. 91-105;
3. Joseph Bristow and Angelia R. Wilson, eds, Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Politics (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1993);
4. Clare Hemmings, 'Resituating the bisexual body', in Bristow and Wilson, pp. 118-138;
5. Jo Eadie, 'Activating bisexuality: towards a bi/sexual politics', in Bristow and Wilson, pp. 139-70;
6. see also Eadie's 'We should be there bi now', Rouge 12 (1993), pp. 26-7;
7. Nicola Field, Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homo- phobia (London: Pluto Press, 1995).
8. See also Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives, ed. Sharon Rose et al. (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1996), and
9. Marjorie Garber, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).
10. Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up (cited in Ann Carson, Eros: the Bittersweet (Princeton: Princeton Uni- versity Press, 1986) 'Limb-loosener': this metaphor was common in Greek writing about desire and signalled the unwelcome yet irresistible unbinding of the defended self which desire entailed. In short, a fascination with the way desire undermines rather than confirms identity goes back at least this far.
11. Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), p. 309.
12. 'Gender as performance: an interview with Judith Butler', Radical Philo- sophy 67 (Summer 1994), p. 32.
13. Judith Butler, 'Imitation and gender insubordination' in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. Diana Fuss (London: Routledge, 1991), p. 21.
14. Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure (London: Virago, 1994), p. 234; Segal's book is, more generally, an indispensably thoughtful defence of female heterosexuality against the reductive accounts of it to be found in the sexual politics of recent decades - feminist, lesbian-feminist, gay and otherwise.
15. Cora Kaplan, '"A cavern opened in my mind": the poetics of homo- sexuality and the politics of masculinity in James Baldwin', in Representing Black Men, ed. Marcellus Blount and George Cunningham (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 32.