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For years bisexuality was considered merely a transitional stage between a person's presumed heterosexuality and "true" homosexuality, or vice versa, and was thereby regarded with suspicion by the lesbian and gay community and 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 to seriously engage the subject as a whole. Paula Rust at last rectifies this 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, the book 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.
Preface
I. Paving the Way for Research on Bisexuality
Section 1 Wherefore Art Thou, Bisexuality?
1. Criticisms of the Scholarly Literature on Sexuality for Its Neglect of Bisexuality, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
2. Bisexuality: Reassessing Our Paradigms of, by Jay P. Paul
3. A Little Bit of Lavender Goes a Long Way: A Critique of Research on Sexual, by A. P. MacDonald, Jr.
Section 2 Now You Don't See It, Now You Do
4. Alternatives to Binary Sexuality: Modeling Bisexuality, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
5. Identity Conflict or Adaptive Flexibility? Bisexuality Reconsidered, by Gary Zinik
6. A Critical Examination of the Concept of Gender, by Marilyn J. Freimuth and Gail A. Hornstein
7. The Periodic Table Model of the Gender Transpositions, by James D. Weinrich
II. Limerent and Lusty Sexual Attractions and the Nature of Bisexuality
8. Beyond Gender: The Basis of Sexual Attraction in Bisexual Men and Women, by Michael W. Ross and Jay R. Paul
9. From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships: A Contextual Shift, by John P. De Cecco and Michael G. Shively
10. Gender Identity and Sexual Behavior, by Harry Brierley
Section 3 How Many Bisexuals Are There?
11. Review of Statistical Findings About Bisexual Behavior, Feelings, and Identities, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
12. Behavior Patterns and Sexual Identity of Bisexual Males, by Janet Lever, David E. Kanouse, William H. Rogers, Sally Carson, and Rosanna Hert
13. On the Diversity of Love Object Orientation Among Women, by Sophie Freud Loewenstein
III. From Lesbian Strippers and Prison Punks to Bisexual Subjects: The History of a Research Literature
Section 4 Looking at the Past Through Bi-Colored Glasses
14. Academic Literature on Situational Homosexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
15. Homosexuality in Prison, by George L. Kirkham
16. Lesbian Behavior as an Adaptation to the Occupation of Stripping, by Charles H. McCaghy and James K. Skipper Jr.
Section 5 Bisexuality, by Another Name
17. Heterosexual Gays, Heterosexual Lesbians, and Homosexual Straights, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
18. Bisexual and Gay Men in Heterosexual Marriage: Conflicts and Resolutions in Therapy, by Eli Coleman
19. The Commencement of Bisexual Activity in Swinging Married Women Over Age Thirty, by Joan K. Dixon
Section 6 A Topic in Its Own Right
20. Pioneers in Contemporary Research on Bisexuality, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
21. Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues, by Philip W. Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz
Section 7 Attention for All the Wrong, and All the Right, Reasons
22. Bisexuality in HIV Research, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
Section 8 Coming Out and Coming of Age
23. The Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Sexuality of Bisexuality, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
24. Neutralizing the Political Threat of the Marginal Woman: Lesbians' Beliefs About Bisexual Women, by Paula C. Rust
25. Effects of Sexual Orientation on Interpersonal Judgment, by Joseph Istvan
26. "Coming Out'' in the Age of Social Constructionism: Sexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women, by Paula C. Rust
Section 9 From Bisexual Chic to Bisexual Activism
27. Popular Images and the Growth of Bisexual Community and Visibility, by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust
28. Bisexual Chic: Anyone Goes, by Newsweek
29. A Perilous Double Love Life, by David Gelman with Lisa Drew, Mary Hager, Monroe Anderson, George Raine, and Sue
30. Bisexuality Emerges as a New Sexual Identity, by John Leland