1st Edition
Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation
Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. A history of bisexual invisibility within sexology and psychology Chapter 3. Invisible or invalidated: The marginalisation of bisexual identities Chapter 4. In/visible visual identities Chapter 5. The erasure and exclusion of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and plurisexual people within education, employment, and mainstream mass media Chapter 6. Becoming visible and reflecting on visibility
Biography
Nikki Hayfield is a social psychologist whose research interests are in bisexualities, pansexualities, asexualities, and sexualities more widely. She has published research on a range of topics including bisexual identities, marginalisation, and relationships.
‘Hayfield's Bisexual and Pansexual Identities: Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation is a much needed text both in studying plurisexualities and sexualities more broadly. Hayfield's text has a brilliant clarity and breadth, giving much needed academic attention to bisexual identities, and also sexual identities not commonly studied including asexuality and pansexuality. Its particular strengths lie in characterising the complex and disparate debates to impress upon the reader the invisibility and marginalisation of plurisexual identities. These points are accentuated through Hayfield's compelling usage of contemporary illustrations of plurisexual invisibility across media and society. This is an excellent and accessible resource for anyone with an interest in sexuality, across all levels of expertise.’
Mx. Rosie Nelson, University of Bristol, U.K.‘Nikki Hayfield’s work on bi/pan/asexual invisibility is an essential resource on the documentation of the historical development and reinforcement of this invisibility and its modern manifestations and consequences. This text weaves together decades of research into a useful and impactful narrative that can support the future visibility of these communities.’
Corey Flanders, Dept of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College, U.S.
