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Bisexual theory is a field of critical theory, inspired by queer theory and bisexual politics, that foregrounds bisexuality as both a theoretical focus and as an epistemology.[1][2][3] Bisexual theory emerged most prominently in the 1990s, in response to the burgeoning field of queer theory, and queer studies more broadly, frequently employing similar post-structuralist approaches but redressing queer theory's tendency towards bisexual erasure.[4][5][6][7]

In their critique of the frequent elision of bisexuality in queer theory, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio and Jonathan Alexander write, "a queer theory that misses bisexuality's querying of normative sexualities is itself too mastered by the very normative and normalizing binaries it seeks to unsettle".[8]

Scholars who have been discussed in relation to bisexual theory include Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé,[9] Steven Angelides,[10] Elisabeth Däumer,[11] Jo Eadie,[12] Shiri Eisner,[13] Marjorie Garber,[14] Donald E. Hall,[15] Clare Hemmings,[16] Michael du Plessis,[17] Maria Pramaggiore,[18] Merl Storr,[19] and Kenji Yoshino.[20]

  1. ^ Hemmings, Clare (2002). Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender. London and New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 18-22. ISBN 978-0415930826.
  2. ^ Alexander, Jonathan; Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena (2011). Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges. London and New York: Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-0415686716.
  3. ^ Eadie, Jo (1993). "Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bi/Sexual Politics." In Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics. London: Lawrence & Wishart, pp.139-170. ISBN 978-0853157908.
  4. ^ Callis, April S. (2009). "Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory". Journal of Bisexuality. 9 (3–4): 213–233. doi:10.1080/15299710903316513. S2CID 55240759.
  5. ^ Erickson-Schroth, Laura; Mitchell, Jennifer (2009). "Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality Matters". Journal of Bisexuality. 9 (3–4): 297–315. doi:10.1080/15299710903316596. S2CID 144446326.
  6. ^ Gammon, Mark A.; Isgro, Kirsten L. (2006). "Troubling the canon: Bisexuality and queer theory". Journal of Homosexuality. 52 (1–2): 159–184. doi:10.1300/J082v52n01_07. PMID 17287190. S2CID 20038125. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  7. ^ Gurevich, Maria; Bailey, Helen; Bower, Jo (2009). "Querying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory". Journal of Bisexuality. 9 (3–4): 235–257. doi:10.1080/15299710903316539. S2CID 144698725. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  8. ^ Alexander, Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory, p. 7.
  9. ^ Robinson, Margaret (2014). "Bisexual People". In Thatcher, A. (ed.). (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199664153
  10. ^ Alexander; Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory, 6.
  11. ^ Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces, 19.
  12. ^ Eisner, Shiri (2013). Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. pp. 128–130. ISBN 978-1580054744.
  13. ^ Rapoport, Esther (2019). From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real. Oxon and New York, NY: Routledge. p. 70. ISBN 978-0367227500.
  14. ^ Hemmings, Clare (1997). "Bisexual Theoretical Perspectives". In Bi Academic Intervention (eds.), The Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, and Desire. London and Washington: Cassel. p. 16.
  15. ^ Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces, 19.
  16. ^ Alexander; Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory, 6.
  17. ^ Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces, p. 3.
  18. ^ Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces, p. 3.
  19. ^ George, Sue (2002). "British Bisexual Women: A New Century." Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY, London, and Oxford: Harrington Park Press. p. 180.
  20. ^ Eisner, Bi, 66.