1st Edition

Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century

By Dawn Atkins Copyright 2003
304 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
  • 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
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Atkins, Dawn