1996
DOI: 10.1080/09502369608582258
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Bisexuality, heterosexuality, and wishful theory

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“…This creates a particular problem for bisexuality, which refuses to abnegate choice or to remain within the categories of 'gay' and 'straight' (p. 15). Indeed, as Bond et al (2009) noted, bisexuals are often viewed as out-group members by the heterosexual and homosexual communities-creating problems in terms of peer group identification (p. 44) whereas Dollimore (1996) also noted the hostility expressed toward bisexuality by some gays who describe it as a "miscegenate location: (p. 523). By foregrounding bisexual identities rather than the 'common sense' binary of hetero and homosexuality, Torchwood has the potential to offer a site of identification for a frequently maligned sexual minority and to disrupt the comfort of viewers by calling into question their understanding of sexuality as something fixed and deterministic-with the prospect that anyone might be 'turned.'…”
Section: Why Torchwood Mattersmentioning
confidence: 95%
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“…This creates a particular problem for bisexuality, which refuses to abnegate choice or to remain within the categories of 'gay' and 'straight' (p. 15). Indeed, as Bond et al (2009) noted, bisexuals are often viewed as out-group members by the heterosexual and homosexual communities-creating problems in terms of peer group identification (p. 44) whereas Dollimore (1996) also noted the hostility expressed toward bisexuality by some gays who describe it as a "miscegenate location: (p. 523). By foregrounding bisexual identities rather than the 'common sense' binary of hetero and homosexuality, Torchwood has the potential to offer a site of identification for a frequently maligned sexual minority and to disrupt the comfort of viewers by calling into question their understanding of sexuality as something fixed and deterministic-with the prospect that anyone might be 'turned.'…”
Section: Why Torchwood Mattersmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Merl Storr (2003) proposed bisexuality as the "post-modern" sexuality, as it would seem to share the characteristics of fragmentation, instability, antifoundationalism and loss of identity (p 155). Jonathan Dollimore (1996) took a less positive view, arguing that there is something predictably safe about the new bisexual politics-not least the reluctance to concede the radically destabilizing potential of desire (p. 531). But compared to the vast literature on gay and lesbian sexualities, bisexuality has received relatively little attention.…”
Section: Why Torchwood Mattersmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…One way of conceiving of this distinctive subject-object relationship would be to suggest that the object in bisexuality serves not to mask the inconsistency of the subject and the symbolic, but to foreground and eroticize this inconsistency and instability. Jonathan Dollimore (1996) presents a similar understanding of bisexual specificity in an essay urging bisexual theorists to address the "mass of tangled desires and identifications" underlying bisexual practice (p. 528). Presenting readers with a scenario in which "a bisexual male partakes of a threesome in which he watches a man fucking with a woman," Dollimore explored the contradictory identifications and desires of the bisexual voyeur and concludes that it is precisely the instability of this position that makes bisexuality worth analyzing (p. 529).…”
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“…Nem olyan egyszerű a képlet, hogy mindenki vágyik a másik kettőre, hanem az is meghatározza a vágyakat, hogy a harmadik személy mit szól a többiek ketteséhez. Az egyének összekapcsolódása egy hármasban nem csak a testi érint-kezésben valósul meg, hanem a látványban is, az azonosulások és vágyak többirányú, akár feszültségterhes megtapasztalásában (Dollimore 1996). Lili érzelmi pozíciója kérdéses számomra ebben a történetben, hiszen kiderül a részletből, hogy Szilárdhoz jobban kezdett kötődni, mint ő hozzá.…”
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