Inescapable Essentialism: Bisexually-Identified Women's Strategies in the Late 80s and Early 90s

摘要: In the formation of new sexually-identified groups rhetoric and language used becomes paramount importance. Who is defined as a member? not? What do members have in common? different? The by bisexually-identified women, forming communities, political movements, theory late eighties early nineties, provides an opening which to analyze essentialist notions employed define police developing bisexual women's territory. had hoped be challenge traditional identity politics, such 'lesbian' 'straight', ended for some narrow innate definition what bisexuality how it expressed within bisexual-identity politics community. Others tended throw into abstraction see not lived sexuality or politic but theoretical perspective disrupt dichotomous sexual categories. However, both approaches renders 'bisexuality' concept limited problematic. It appears has been thought 'third-space' disruption does not, this case, escapable essentialism.