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

• Autore: Fraser Mariam
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.76/6
• Soggetto topico: Bisexuality; Identity (Psychology); Self (Philosophy)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Identity without selfhood
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778871803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge cultural social studies.