From Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life Vice versa. From the Latin phrase meaning with reversal of the regular order, conversely. Vice here comes from the same word as vicinity, or place. Thus vice versa; places turned; contrariwise. Why call a book about bisexuality Vice Versa Doesn't the very phrase suggest only two possibilities Male or female, gay or straight, ...

Marjorie Garber used with permission. Whether treating obviously large topics, like Shakespeare or bisexuality, or those odd and unexpectedly fascinating bits of cultural history, such as the Jell-O box used as manufactured evidence in the Rosenberg conspiracy trial of the 1940s, Marjorie Garber delights in drawing our attention to the uncanny (one of her favorite words) connections that weave ...