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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 October 2009
      22 April 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511583414
      9780521623575
      9780521625791
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583414
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 228 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Sociology of Gender, Sociology: General Interest, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Sociology of Gender, Sociology: General Interest, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    Identity without Selfhood proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self-realisation and narrative. In a detailed study of biographical, media and academic representations of Simone de Beauvoir, Dr Fraser illustrates that bisexuality, by contrast, is discursively produced as an identity which exceeds the confines of the self and especially the individuality ascribed to de Beauvoir. In the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the self, the argument presented in the book also offers a critique of Foucault's work from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective.

    Reviews

    "If any text marks the coming of age of bisexuality as an academic subject, Mariam Fraser's Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality may be the one." Bi Books

    "Fraser's book makes a major contribution to recent scholarship in feminist, poststructural, and queer theories of subjectivity, the body, and identity..." Janet Wirth-Cauchon, American Journal of Sociology

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