Identity Without Selfhood - Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality

Subtitled "Simone de Beauvoir And Bisexuality".

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Identity and selfhood; 2. Identity and embodiment; 3. Telling tales; 4. Preculsion; 5. Displacement; 6. Erasure; 7. Lose your face; Conclusion.

Summary

Examining how de Beauvoir is constructed as an intelligible self by academics, biographers and the media, this book proposes an original conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates and argues that attempts to 'deconstruct' identity founder on Western concepts such as individuality.

Product details

• Authors: Mariam Fraser
• Assisted by: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editor), Steven Seidman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521625791
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62579-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 377 g
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories