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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455102603321

Autore

Fraser Mariam

Titolo

Identity without selfhood : Simone de Beauvoir and bisexuality / / Mariam Fraser [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11501-9

0-511-00564-4

1-280-41891-5

0-511-03537-3

0-511-17225-7

0-511-15037-7

0-511-31012-9

0-511-58341-9

0-511-05061-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge cultural social studies

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Bisexuality

Identity (Psychology)

Self (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Identity and selfhood -- Identity and embodiment -- Telling tales -- Preculsion -- Displacement -- Erasure -- Lose your face -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, 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.