The Bisexual To Be Corrected: Interrogating The Threat And Recuperation Of Women's Femme Bisexuality
Date of Award
12-11-2019
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
First Advisor
Megan Sinnott
Second Advisor
Tiffany King
Third Advisor
Chamara Kwayke
Abstract
In this project I seek to explore the ways in which women’s performance of femme bisexuality constitutes a threat to existing regimes of gender and sexuality in the West. In my analysis, I will consider how femme, femininity, womanhood, and bisexuality are constructed and policed, and further, how these forms of policing layer onto women’s femme bisexuality because of the identity’s potential to weaken existing hegemonic frameworks of power and control. In these considerations I will explore the history of femme as a descriptive/identity label, dominant perceptions of femininity both outside and within feminist circles, the history of bisexuality, the controversies of identity politics and visibility politics, and the contradictions and connections between queer theory and bisexual theory.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/15199640
Recommended Citation
McShane, Hannah, "The Bisexual To Be Corrected: Interrogating The Threat And Recuperation Of Women's Femme Bisexuality." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2019.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/15199640
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