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Bisexual Women - Friendship and Social Organization (Hardcover, New)
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Bisexual Women - Friendship and Social Organization (Hardcover, New)
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Understand the unique emotional dynamics of bisexual women's
friendship relationships Prevailing attitudes toward bisexuality
affect every aspect of a bisexual woman's emotional and sexual
life. Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization
comprehensively explores the friendship relationships of bisexual
women, and the ways that bisexuality shapes the friendship
experience. This book fills a gap in the literature and research on
bisexuality and friendship, presenting leading experts discussing
the latest qualitative and quantitative studies on this rarely
visited topic. This examination explains how the friendships of
bisexual and bi-curious women can be affected by sexism,
heterosexism, biphobia, and racism, as well as providing an
insightful review of how bisexual women are portrayed in film and
literature. Bisexual and bi-curious women often have a more diverse
range of friendship experiences than heterosexual women. Bisexual
Women: Friendship and Social Organization presents studies and
personal essays to provide a comprehensive understanding of the
patterns of various friendship relationships that exist because
ofand in spite ofprevalent social attitudes about bisexuality. This
extensive look details various aspects of bisexual women's
relationships as well as society's biases and preconceived notions.
Analysis of research explores the various effects that being
bisexual has on the way women approach friendship, as well as how
society views both bisexuality and relationships. Topics in
Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization include:
research into young women's emerging sexual orientation identity
types of friendships formed by bisexual women how friendship
experiences are shaped by sociopolitical attitudes bisexual images
in popular media critique of the bisexual women's friendship
literature how heterosexism shapes platonic and erotic
relationships how bisexuality constricts social relationships
analysis of how sexual experiences influenced friendships much more
Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization is insightful,
important reading for psychologists, counselors, LGBT studies
professionals, educators, and students.
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