Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First CenturyBisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century reflects the brave new world of bisexual women's lives through an eclectic collection of articles that typifies an ongoing feminist process of theory grounded in life experience. The book's broad scope addresses a world created in response to lesbian-feminism, homophobia within the mainstream women’s movement, and sexism within the gay rights movement. The book includes Carol Queen's memoirs of the swinging lesbian scene in the 1970s, a critical examination of Alice Walker's novel The Temple of My Familiar, and a look back at the controversy surrounding bisexual inclusion in the Northampton Lesbian and Gay Pride March in Massachusetts in the early 90s. Previous groundbreaking work on bisexuality had to focus on breaking the silence around bisexual invisibility. This collection works from that foundation to explore the complexities and histories of bisexual women's lives.
Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century is an essential source of social and political critique, and a vital resource for anyone interested in the complex dynamics of human sexuality, regardless of sexual orientation. |
Contents
Whats in a Name? Bisexual Women Define Their Terms | 9 |
Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality | 23 |
InternalExternal Subversion of the InsideOutside Dialectic in Alice Walkers The Temple of My Familiar | 53 |
A Critical Analysis of Past Research and Results from a National Survey | 73 |
Queering Bisexuality | 95 |
Are You Bisexual? Are You Human? | 107 |
Performing Liminal States of Sexuality | 109 |
Musing on Pain Love and Others | 129 |
How Do I Get to a BiBar? | 173 |
A New Century | 175 |
A Bisexual Memoir | 193 |
Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers and the Problematics of the Embodied Sacred Whore | 205 |
The Relationship Between Womens Sexual Identity and Perceived Wellness | 227 |
BI FlimVideo World | 243 |
BI Books | 267 |
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Revisiting the Northampton Pride March 19891993 | 143 |
Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships | 163 |