1st Edition
Making Space for Bi+ Identities Explorations of Genders, Identities, and Relationships
How do bi+ people navigate identity, gender, and relationships in a biphobic society? This book explores this question to show how to better include and incorporate bi+ people in research, policy, and the everyday.
You can expect this book to explore how bi+ people experience the gender binary, healthcare, sex, flirting, media representation, and research. It soon becomes clear that bi+ people have different needs and experiences than heterosexual, lesbian, and gay people, and so need specific inclusion measures. Further, the research explores bi+ people’s nuanced approaches to understanding gender, sexuality, sex, and flirting.
This book will be of interest to anyone, whether bi+, a student, a researcher, a policymaker, or a health worker, looking to develop their understanding of bi+ identities and needs. It will also be of relevance to people interested in a broad range of topics, including sexuality, gender, feminism, trans and non binary identities, LGBTQ+ topics, and everyday sociology.
Introduction: Finding the starting point
Section One: Living in a Hostile Society
1. Bi+ Identities in Society
2. Academic Interpretations of Bi+ Identities
3. Bi+ Representation in Academic Scholarship
4. Method to the Madness
Section Two: Bi+ Identities and Language
Section Two Introduction
5. Figuring It Out: Monosexist Internal Narratives
6. Letting It Fly: Monosexism and Homophobia in Disclosure and Community
7. Living Your Life: Navigating Monosexism and Homophobia
Section Two Conclusion: Bi+ People as Sexual Renegades
Section Three: Gender and Sexuality
Section Three Introduction
8. Embodied Sexualities: Seeking Pleasure, Performing Desirability
9. Following the Script, Doing the Dance: Expectations in Gendered Relationships
Section Three Conclusion: Bi+ Overburdened Romantic Possibilities
Section Four: Bi+ Identity, Embodiment, and Gender
Section Four Introduction
10. Twisting the Cistem: Cis People and Gender Performance
11. Smashing the Cistem: Trans and Non Binary People and Gender Performance
12. Bi+ Identities and Gender Identities
Section Four Conclusion: Bi+ People as Gender Ambivalent
Conclusion: Towards a Bi+ Future
Biography
Rosie Nelson (they/them) is a Lecturer in Gender in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol, England. Their research interests include sexuality, gender, qualitative research methods, and feminism.
