Marginalization of Bisexuality: - Jani, Priyanka
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One of the rationales behind the institutionalization of queer theory was defiance of the traditional constructedness of sexual identities based on social structure, accepted mainstream sexual binary and biological models of gender. Although, the queer theorists, claimed to devote the academitization of this theory to the poststructuralist concept of deconstruction of essentialized binary structures of straight people and people with sexual deviance, it ended up adding a new binary that is of "normal people" and "queer people." Apart from creating this new binary in the outer spectrum of…mehr

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One of the rationales behind the institutionalization of queer theory was defiance of the traditional constructedness of sexual identities based on social structure, accepted mainstream sexual binary and biological models of gender. Although, the queer theorists, claimed to devote the academitization of this theory to the poststructuralist concept of deconstruction of essentialized binary structures of straight people and people with sexual deviance, it ended up adding a new binary that is of "normal people" and "queer people." Apart from creating this new binary in the outer spectrum of theory, the hierarchy was also fabricated within the inner edges of the queer theory. The queer theorists unanimously had observed a pin drop silence on the domain of bisexuality, excluding it from the queer theory. But it is on what basis, the process of exclusion and inclusion happens in any kind of discourse or a theoretical domain. The present chapter penetrates upon the issue of gender and performativity to speculate the reasons behind the conspiratorial silence over bisexuality as an identity by analyzing gender theory given by Foucault and Butler, taking the novel Hild.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Priyanka Jani is born in India. She completed her Bachelors and Masters degree in English Literature. She pursued her M. Phil and Ph. D. in the field of Poststructuralism and The Queer Theory. Her area of interests are Literary Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Study of Sexuality and The Queer Theory.