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Bisexuality in the United States: A Social Science Reader

Edited by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Paper, 682 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10227-8
$39.50 / £23.00

November, 1999
Cloth, 682 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10226-1
$85.50 / £50.50

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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

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About the Author

Paula Rust is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Geneseo. She is the author of Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution and numerous journal articles and presentations about bisexuality.

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