Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Bisexual 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 examines: tensions between lesbians and bisexual women the shifting place of bisexual women in society the use of skin color as a charged metaphor the inclusion of bisexuality into queer theory groundbreaking new work on bisexual youth the creative use of the “sacred whore” archetype 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.
About the ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Beauteous and Brave: Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century1What's in a Name? Bisexual Women Define Their Terms9(Con)Tested Identities: Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality23Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar53Bisexual Female Adolescents: A Critical Analysis of Past Research, and Results from a National Survey73Queering Bisexuality95Are You Bisexual? Are You Human?107Cyborgs Among Us: Performing Liminal States of Sexuality109Musing on Pain, Love, and Others129Pride and Politics: Revisiting the Northampton Pride March, 1989-1993143Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships163How Do I Get to a Bi-Bar?173British Bisexual Women: A New Century175Lesbian Love in the Swingin' Seventies: A Bisexual Memoir193Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers and the Problematics of the Embodied Sacred Whore205The Relationship Between Women's Sexual Identity and Perceived Wellness227High and Low: Bisexual Women and Aesthetics in Chasing Amy and High Art243The "Weak" Subject: On Modernity, Eros and Women's Playwriting267Index273
