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Bisexuality in Europe: Sexual citizenship, romantic relationships, and bi+ identities
Abstract
Bisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and the experiences and realities of people who desire more than one sex or gender
Counteracting the predominance of work on bisexuality based in Ango-American contexts, this collection of fifteen contributions from both early-career and more senior academics reflects the current state of research in Europe on bisexuality and people who desire more than one sex or gender. The book is structured around three interlinked themes that resonate well with the international research frontiers of bisexual theorising: bisexual citizenship, intimate relationships, and bisexual+ identities. This book is the first of its kind in bringing together research from various European countries including Austria, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scandinavian countries, as well as from Europe as a wider geographical region.. Topics include pansexual identity, non-monogomies, asylum seekers and youth cultures.
This is an essential collection for students, early career researchers, and more senior academics in Gender Studies, LGBTQI Studies and Sexuality Studies.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809881
This paper unpredictably investigates the exchange between religious philosophy and contemporary Africa’s socio-political and financial elements. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, it dives into many philosophical viewpoints, incorporating conventional African religions and Abrahamic beliefs. The verifiable advancement of these points of view is fastidiously followed, disentangling their significant effect on administration, cultural standards, and financial conduct across the landmass. Through a top-to-bottom examination of philosophical establishments, the paper examines how conviction frameworks established in customary African other worldliness and Abrahamic customs shape Africa’s social and profound scene. It takes apart the unpredictable associations between philosophical points of view and the political belief systems predominant in the area, revealing insight into the job of strict forerunners in forming political talk. The investigation stretches out to civil rights and everyday freedoms, testing the philosophical underpinnings that impact perspectives and activities towards equity and value, with a sharp spotlight on the backing endeavors of strict foundations. In looking at the monetary fundamental factors, the paper examines the effect of abundance, poverty, and thriving philosophies on the financial way of behaving, giving an understanding of how philosophical reactions address issues of neediness and monetary disparity. Furthermore, the paper analyses the moral parts of well-defined courses of action, investigating severe strength areas for what means monetary profound quality and where reasoning meets the functional monetary new development.
Unter dem Label Polyamorie bekommen nicht-monogame Lebensweisen in den letzten Jahren vermehrt mediale Aufmerksamkeit: Was versteht man unter Polyamorie? Was macht eine polyamoröse Lebensweise aus? Inwiefern besitzt sie progressives Potential oder ist sie eine sexuelle Praxis, die einer neoliberalen Logik folgt? Dieser Beitrag fokussiert auf nicht-monogame Praxen, Identitäten und Diskurse, die mit Polyamorie bezeichnet werden und zeichnet den Forschungsstand im deutschsprachigen Raum Europas nach. Dabei werden Studien aus den Disziplinen der Soziologie, Psychologie und aus den Medienwissenschaften besprochen.
Unlike other books on this topic, Polyamory in the 21st Century weaves together research and facts to provide an informed and impartial analysis of polyamory as a lifestyle and as a movement, and to place it in a psychosocial as well as an historical context. Anecdotes and personal experiences allow the reader to develop a better understanding of polyamory and the people who practice and enjoy it. Anapol addresses the practical, the utopian, and the shadow sides of this intriguing, mysterious, yet often threatening lifestyle. It honestly addresses difficult issues such as the nature of commitment without exclusivity, balancing personal needs with loyalty to a partner, evaluating beliefs about love and relationship, the impact of polyamory on children, and the challenges that arise when one partner wants monogamy and another prefers polyamory. Without judgement, she explores this increasingly common practice, and reveals the true nature of a lifestyle that many do not understand.
In this article, post-structural discourse analysis is used to examine discourses of identity in the political literature of the UK bisexual movement during the period 1988-1996. Two competing discursive strategies are identified, both of which draw on academic discourses of essentialism and constructionism to articulate resistance to dominant binary categories of sexuality. The first of these strategies seeks to establish bisexuality as essential and authentic, dismissing homosexuality and heterosexuality as socially constructed. The second presents bisexuality as unifying and liberating, compared to divisive and restrictive binary categories.
Identity Without Selfhood, first published in 1999, proposes a conception of identity and subjectivity in the context of recent post-structuralist and queer debates. The author argues that efforts to analyse and even 'deconstruct' identity and selfhood still rely on certain core Western techniques of identity such as individuality, boundedness, autonomy, self-realisation and narrative. In a detailed study of biographical, media and academic representations of Simone de Beauvoir, Dr Fraser illustrates that bisexuality, by contrast, is discursively produced as an identity which exceeds the confines of the self and especially the individuality ascribed to de Beauvoir. In the course of this analysis, she draws attention to the high costs incurred by processes of subjectification. it is in the light of these costs that, while drawing substantially on, and expanding, Foucault's notion of techniques of the self, the argument presented in the book also offers a critique of Foucault's work from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective.
