Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life / Edition 1

by Marjorie Garber

Overview

"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."
-Gore Vidal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138171572
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/27/2016
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1: Bi Ways; Chapter 1: Bi Words; Chapter 2: Bi Sexual Politics; Chapter 3: Fatal Attractions; Chapter 4: No Scandal in Bohemia; Chapter 5: Bisexuality and Celebrity; Part 2: Bi-ology; Chapter 6: The Secret of Tiresias; Chapter 7: Freud and the Golden Fliess; Chapter 8: Androgyny and Its Discontents; Chapter 9: Ellis in Wonderland; Chapter 10: Standard Deviations; Chapter 11: The Return to Biology; Chapter 12: On the Other Hand; Part 3: Bi Laws; Chapter 13: Normal Schools; Chapter 14: Erotic Education; Chapter 15: “It's a Phase”; Chapter 16: Family Values; Chapter 17: Marriages of Inconvenience; Part 4: Bi Sex; Chapter 18: Erotic Triangles; Chapter 19: Jealousy; Chapter 20: The Bisexual Plot; Chapter 21: Threesomes; Chapter 22: Vice Verses; Chapter 23: Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

"Garber's book is one of those seriously researched books that covers every facet of this topic, including a look at celebrity bisexuals thorugh history, like Georgia O'Keeffe and Virginia Woolf." — Curve
"Marjorie Garber has written with great intelligence about bisexuality and she should probably get out of Dodge as fast as possible." — Rita Mae Brown, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"After reading Bisexuality I find myself willing to reinterpret the narrative of my own personal history." — Edmund White

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