Erich W Steinman,Brett Genny Beemyn's Bisexual Men in Culture and Society PDF

By Erich W Steinman,Brett Genny Beemyn

achieve a clean standpoint in this misunderstood sexual orientation!

From invisible to pathological, the literary, cultural, and theoretical representations of male bisexuality were virtually uniformly detrimental. Bisexual males in tradition and Society offers a transparent, rational research of the unfavourable stereotypes and the underlying purposes for them.

”The bisexual is the brutal father, the abusive husband, the violent rapist (all commonplace figures of male heterosexual power), yet he's additionally the simpering, oral-sadistic mama's boy present in psychoanalytic bills of homosexuality. . . . Bisexuals are queers with directly privilege, . . . straights with homosexual chic.” Jonathan David White's caustic precis of bisexual males as obvious in David Lynch's movie Blue Velvet additionally applies to a number of the representations of male bisexuality in renowned and excessive tradition. the unique essays in Bisexual males in tradition and Society deconstruct that harmful photo with blistering strength and accuracy.

Bisexual males in tradition and Society deals considerate, insightful examinations of the cultural meanings of bisexuality, together with:

the ordinary determine of the predatory, immoral bisexual guy within the novels of E. Lynn Harris
the missed bisexual subject matters in James Baldwin's vintage novels one other state and Giovanni's Room
the murderous bisexual males in such motion pictures as Blue Velvet and American Commandos
the portrayal in women's magazines of the bisexual husband as a promiscuous, deceitful AIDS service
the conflicts inside sexual-identity politics among homosexual males and bisexual males
the point of interest on bisexual orientation, instead of sexual habit, as a hazard issue for AIDS

Continuing the culture of Bisexuality within the Lives of guys: proof and Fictions, Bisexual males in tradition and Society deals a super research of the lives of bisexual males and their precarious place inside of a racist, sexist, and homophobic society.

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