{"product_id":"identity-without-selfhood-simone-de-beauvoir-and-bisexuality-paperback-9780521625791","title":"Identity without Selfhood; Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality (Paperback) 9780521625791","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIdentity without Selfhood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSimone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book presents a post-structuralist-queer theory of the self drawing on representations of de Beauvoir and her bisexuality.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMariam Fraser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521625791, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 22 April 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIdentity 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Identity and selfhood\u003cbr\u003e 2. Identity and embodiment\u003cbr\u003e 3. Telling tales\u003cbr\u003e 4. Preculsion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Displacement\u003cbr\u003e 6. Erasure\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lose your face\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Cultural studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Cultural studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Cultural%20studies%20%5BJFC%5D%22\"\u003eJFC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129308369176,"sku":"9780521625791","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521625791i.jpg?v=1691666602","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/identity-without-selfhood-simone-de-beauvoir-and-bisexuality-paperback-9780521625791","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}