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Queer Ethics; or, The Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Elisabeth D. Däumer
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Abstract

Due to its problematic political and social position between two opposed sexual cultures, bisexuality has often been ignored by feminist and lesbian theorists both as a concept and a realm of experiences. The essay argues that bisexuality, precisely because it transgresses bipolar notions of fixed gendered and sexed identities, is usefully explored by lesbian and feminist theorists, enhancing our effort to devise an ethics of difference and to develop nonoppressive ways of responding to alterity.

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CONSTRUCTING “LESBIAN”
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 91 - 105
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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