Date of Award

2021

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Women's Studies and Gender Studies

Abstract

Bisexuality is an identity and epistemology that has been underutilized across queer theory and sexuality studies. In an effort to bridge that gap, this thesis attempts to intertwine bisexuality theory with queer theory to highlight the theoretical strength they offer one another. Further, this paper examines the ways in which bisexuality haunts and is haunted by mononormativity, and the ways in which bisexuality is monstrous. Through the use of cinematic texts, queer theory, bisexual theory, and affect theory, I will examine how bisexuality functions as both an identity and a epistemological landscape. The primary questions that drive this research include: what does bisexuality have to have queer theory and sexuality studies? How is bisexuality deconstruction of sexuality and established binaries? How is bisexuality haunting? How does it haunt? Is the figure of the monster in horror a place of potentiality for the bisexual?

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