FOR YEARS BISEXUALITY WAS CONSIDERED MERELY A TRANSITIONAL STAGE
between a person's presumed sexuality, whether heterosexual or
homosexual, and their "true" sexuality. Bisexuality was therefore
regarded with suspicion by the lesbian and gay community and with
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
seriously to engage the subject as a whole. Paula Rust at last
rectifies the 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, Bisexuality in the United States
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.
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