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Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Dawn Atkins, MA
Published by Haworth Press Inc., 2003.

Also published as a special issue of the
Journal of Bisexuality, Volume 2, Number 2/3, 2002.

About The Book:

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.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beauteous and Brave: Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century
What’s in a Name: Bisexual Women Define Their Terms
(Con)Tested Identities: Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality
Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar
Bisexual Female Adolescents: A Critical Analysis of Past Research, and Results from a National Survey
Queering Bisexuality
Are You Bisexual? Are You Human?
Cyborgs Among Us: Performing Liminal States of Sexuality
Musing on Pain, Love, and Others
Pride and Politics: Revisiting the Northampton Pride March, 1989-1993
Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships
How Do I Get to a Bi-Bar?
British Bisexual Women: A New Century
Lesbian Love in the Swingin’ Seventies: A Bisexual Memoir
Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers and the Problematics of the Embodied Sacred Whore
The Relationship Between Women’s Sexual Identity and Perceived Wellness
BI FILM-VIDEO WORLD
High and Low: Bisexual Women and Aesthetics Chasing Amy and High Art
BI BOOKS
The “Weak” Subject: On Modernity, Eros and Women’s Playwriting, by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio
Index