Bisexuality and Queer Theory
Intersections, Connections, and Challenges

This provocative collection presents bisexuality and queer theory as two parallel thought collectives that have made significant contributions to cultural discourses about sexual and amorous practices since the onset of the AIDS era, and explores the ideas that circulate in these thought collectives today. We learn much about the construction and experience of sexuality, and the power it still holds throughout the contemporary Western world to shape identities and practices. This volume challenges our understanding of what it means to be sexual, to have a sexual identity, and to practise the arts of loving. This book was orginally published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.

1. Introduction: Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio and Jonathan Alexander
Part I: Theories
2. Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory, April S. Callis
3. Queerying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory, Maria Gurevich, Helen Bailey and Jo Bower
4. Reclaiming Sexual Difference: What Queer Theory Can't Tell Us About Sexuality, Susan Feldman
5. Bisexuality In Psychoanalytic Theory: Interpreting the Resistance, Esther Rapoport
Part II: Readings
6. Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality, Matters, Laura Erickson-Schroth and Jennifer Mitchell
7. Refusing Butler's Binary: Bisexuality and Performative Melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway, Nowell Marshall
8. Plural Happiness: Bi- and Poly-Triangulation in Balasko's French Twist, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
Part III: Socialities
9. 'All the world is queer save thee and me!': Defining Queer and Bi at a Critical Sexology Seminar, Meg Barker, Christina Richards and Hellen Bowes-Catton
10. Adjusting the Borders: Bisexual Passing and Queer Theory, Jessa Lingel
11. Compulsory Bisexuality? The Challenges of Modern Sexual Fluidity, Breanna Fahs
Part IV: Responses
12. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bisexual, David Halperin