Sex, ‘Race,’ and Betrayal
Kalinda Sharma and Bisexual Feminist Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12759229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonie Taylor (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-293 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Bisexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-9716 • E-ISSN: 1529-9724 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15299716.2016.1199003 |
| OpenAlex | W2469805703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
The bisexual woman is a key site of contestation in theorizing a feminist sexual politics. Paradoxically, she can be situated as either a source of liberation or a source of oppression. Acknowledging this ambiguity, the author examines to what extent female bisexuality can theorize a liberatory feminist sexual politics from three angles: pleasure and desire, queer alliance building, and ‘race.’ Challenging bisexual stereotypes, the author shows how bisexual women are framed within a phallocentric lesbian feminist consciousness and considers how the racialization of bisexuality complicates its radical potential. The author considers the threatening nature of bisexual women through Hemmings’ theory of the bisexual ‘double agent’ and the character of Kalinda Sharma from the CBS television series The Good Wife. The author uses these productive limitations of bisexuality to imagine a liberatory feminist sexual politics, exploring to what extent the unbiased nature of bisexual desire defies misogyny and heteronormative logic
Betrayal · Heteronormativity · Lesbian · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
Volatile Bodies
This Sex Which is Not One
Ain't I a woman
Bisexuality
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
Adjusting the Borders
The Intersection of Race and Bisexuality
The Price of ‘Community’ From Bisexual/Biracial Women's Perspectives
What's in a Name? Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies
Queer Ethics; or, The Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics
Sex Positive
Historicizing (Bi)Sexuality
Community Cleavages
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Hegemonic Discourse in an Oppositional Community
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |