課程說明

This is a follow-up course on the (IN-)stability of gender/sexuality politics. Last semester we read several recent works on cross-dressing and the categorical crisis that it provokes, as well as the highly political perverse dynamic at work in all forms of sexual dissidence. This semester we will move on to investigate another dimension of gender/sexuality discontent: the dimension of time and the changes that necessarily accompany it. As the dimension of time enters the scene, it brings on a host of other thorny questions in relation to the nature of love, of infidelity, of aging, of falling out of love, of uncertainty, and in sum, of the basic fact of change-and the challenges they bring to identity politics. In the end, bisexuality may turn out to be a term we use at the present moment to designate a variety of things that we are not quite sure how to deal with.

Readings:

• Geller, Thomas, ed. Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook. Novato, CA: Times Change Press, 1990.
• Weise, Elizabeth Reba. Closer to Home: Bisexuality & Feminism. Seattle, WA: Seal, 1992.
• Tucker, Naomi, ed. Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions. New York: Harrington Park P, 1995.
• Rust, Paula C. Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution. New York: New York UP, 1995.
• Garber, Marjorie. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Beemyn, Brett & Mickey Eliason, eds. Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Anthology. New York: New York UP, 1996.
• Phelan, Shane, ed. Playing With Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories. New York: Routledge, 1997.