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In Praise of Unreliability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Lisa Heldke
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Abstract

Bisexuality challenges familiar assumptions about love, family, and sexual desire that are shared by both heterosexual and homosexual communities. In particular, it challenges the assumption that a person's desire can and should run in only one direction. Furthermore, bisexuality questions the legitimacy, rigidity, and presumed ontological priority of the categories “heterosexual” and “homosexual.” Bisexuals are often assumed to be dishonest and unreliable. I suggest that dishonesty and unreliability can be resources for undermining normative sexualities.

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Third Frequencies
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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms , Summer 1997 , pp. 174 - 182
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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