Chapter 9 Biopia: Bisexuality and the Crisis of Visibility in a Queer Symbolic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Bl-ntroduction I Epistemologies of the Fence 1
6. Bl-ntroduction II Epistemologies of the Fence 8
7. Part One. Unthinking Queer/Theorizing Bisexually
8. Chapter 1 Blatantiy Bisexual; or, Unthinking Queer Theory 19
9. Chapter 2 Do Bats Eat Cats? Reading What Bisexuality Does 55
10. Chapter 3 From Performativity to Interpretation: Toward a Social Semiotic Account of Bisexuality 70
11. Part Two. ImPrinting Bisexualities: Literary Readings
12. Chapter 4 Graphic Sexuality and the Erasure of a Polymorphous Perversity 99
13. Chapter 5 Loving Dora: Rereading Freud through H. D.'s Her 124
14. Chapter 6 Bi-nary Bi-sexuality: Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies 142
15. Chapter 7 Versatile Interests: Reading Bisexuality in The Friendly Young Ladies 165
16. Chapter 8 Invisible Sissy: The Politics of Masculinity in African American Bisexual Narrative 180
17. Part Three. Biopia: Perspectives on Bisexual Visual Culture
18. Chapter 9 Biopia: Bisexuality and the Crisis of Visibility in a Queer Symbolic 207
19. Chapter 10 Rough Trade: Sexual Taxonomy in Postwar America 234
20. Chapter 11 Framing Contention: Bisexuality Displaced 253
21. Chapter 12 Straddling the Screen: Bisexual Spectatorship and Contemporary Narrative Film 272
22. Index 299