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For years bisexuality was considered merely a transitional stage between a person's presumed heterosexuality and "true" homosexuality, or vice versa, and was thereby regarded with suspicion by the lesbian and gay community and contempt by the "straight" world. The study and understanding of bisexuality has surpassed the stereotyped representations of previous eras (e.g., "Basic Instinct"), but few books attempt to seriously engage the subject as a whole. Paula Rust at last rectifies this absence in the literature by presenting the first interdisciplinary and comprehensive review of social scientific research and theory about bisexuality.
With contributions by sociologists, psychologists, historians, political theorists, and others, the book yields an overall picture of what we know, and what we don't know, about the subject. The book provides a wealth of information about the lives and experiences of bisexual people. Articles cover early research in which bisexuality was conceptualized as "situational homosexuality," pioneering research on bisexuality as an authentic sexual orientation, scholarship on bisexuality in the context of AIDS research, the phenomena of "bisexual chic" and biphobia, queer theory, and the contemporary relationship between academia and political activism. Selections include theoretical and empirical studies from social science perspectives as well as popular writings about the growth of the bisexual movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
A comprehensive discussion of the role of bisexuality in the history of sex research in the United States dating before 1970 through to 1999. Sexualities
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Paving the Way for Research on Bisexuality | p. 1 |
| Wherefore Art Thou, Bisexuality? | p. 3 |
| Criticisms of the Scholarly Literature on Sexuality for Its Neglect of Bisexuality | p. 5 |
| Bisexuality: Reassessing Our Paradigms of Sexuality | p. 11 |
| A Little Bit of Lavender Goes a Long Way: A Critique of Research on Sexual Orientation | p. 24 |
| Now You Don't See It, Now You Do | p. 31 |
| Alternatives to Binary Sexuality: Modeling Bisexuality | p. 33 |
| Identity Conflict or Adaptive Flexibility? Bisexuality Reconsidered | p. 55 |
| A Critical Examination of the Concept of Gender | p. 61 |
| The Periodic Table Model of the Gender Transpositions: Part II. Limerent and Lusty Sexual Attractions and the Nature of Bisexuality | p. 78 |
| Beyond Gender: The Basis of Sexual Attraction in Bisexual Men and Women | p. 92 |
| From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships: A Contextual Shift | p. 99 |
| Gender Identity and Sexual Behaviour | p. 104 |
| How Many Bisexuals Are There? | p. 127 |
| Review of Statistical Findings About Bisexual Behavior, Feelings, and Identities | p. 129 |
| Behavior Patterns and Sexual Identity of Bisexual Males | p. 185 |
| On the Diversity of Love Object Orientations Among Women | p. 203 |
| From Lesbian Strippers and Prison Punks to Bisexual Subjects: The History of a Research Literature | p. 217 |
| Looking at the Past Through Bi-Colored Glasses | p. 219 |
| Academic Literature on Situational Homosexuality in the 1960s and 1970s | p. 221 |
| Homosexuality in Prison | p. 250 |
| Lesbian Behavior as an Adaptation to the Occupation of Stripping | p. 267 |
| Bisexuality by Another Name | p. 277 |
| Heterosexual Gays, Heterosexual Lesbians, and Homosexual Straights | p. 279 |
| Bisexual and Gay Men in Heterosexual Marriage: Conflicts and Resolutions in Therapy | p. 307 |
| The Commencement of Bisexual Activity in Swinging Married Women Over Age Thirty | p. 316 |
| A Topic in Its Own Right | p. 333 |
| Pioneers in Contemporary Research on Bisexuality | p. 335 |
| Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues | p. 339 |
| Attention for All the Wrong, and All the Right, Reasons | p. 353 |
| Bisexuality in HIV Research | p. 355 |
| Coming Out and Coming of Age | p. 401 |
| The Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Sexuality of Bisexuality | p. 403 |
| Neutralizing the Political Threat of the Marginal Woman: Lesbians' Beliefs About Bisexual Women | p. 471 |
| Effects of Sexual Orientation on Interpersonal Judgment | p. 498 |
| "Coming Out" in the Age of Social Constructionism: Sexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women | p. 512 |
| From Bisexual Chic to Bisexual Activism | p. 535 |
| Popular Images and the Growth of Bisexual Community and Visibility | p. 537 |
| Bisexual Chic: Anyone Goes | p. 554 |
| A Perilous Double Love Life | p. 556 |
| Bisexuality Emerges as a New Sexual Identity | p. 560 |
| Bibliography | p. 567 |
| Name Index | p. 627 |
| Subject Index | p. 639 |
| Copyright Acknowledgments | p. 657 |
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ISBN: 9780231102278
ISBN-10: 0231102275
Series: Between Men--Between Women
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 682
Published: 25th October 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Dimensions (cm): 24.8 x 17.8
x 3.5
Weight (kg): 1.16
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