Bisexuality in the United States : a social science reader / [edited by] Paula C. Rodríguez Rust.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rust, Paula C., 1959-

Series:

Between men--between women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bisexuality--United States.

Bisexuality.

Bisexual people--United States.

Bisexual people.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 659 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Contents:

Part 1 Paving the Way for Research on Bisexuality 1

Section 1 Wherefore Art Thou, Bisexuality? 3

1. Criticisms of the Scholarly Literature on Sexuality for Its Neglect of Bisexuality / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 5

2. Bisexuality: Reassessing Our Paradigms of Sexuality / Jay P. Paul 11

3. A Little Bit of Lavender Goes a Long Way: A Critique of Research on Sexual Orientation / A. P. MacDonald, Jr. 24

Section 2 Now You Don't See It, Now You Do 31

4. Alternatives to Binary Sexuality: Modeling Bisexuality / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 33

5. Identity Conflict or Adaptive Flexibility? Bisexuality Reconsidered / Gary Zinik 55

6. A Critical Examination of the Concept of Gender / Marilyn J. Freimuth, Gail A. Hornstein 61

7. The Periodic Table Model of the Gender Transpositions: Part II. Limerent and Lusty Sexual Attractions and the Nature of Bisexuality / James D. Weinrich 78

8. Beyond Gender: The Basis of Sexual Attraction in Bisexual Men and Women / Michael W. Ross, Jay P. Paul 92

9. From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships: A Contextual Shift / John P. De Cecco, Michael G. Shively 99

10. Gender Identity and Sexual Behaviour / Harry Brierley 104

Section 3 How Many Bisexuals Are There? 127

11. Review of Statistical Findings About Bisexual Behavior, Feelings, and Identities / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 129

12. Behavior Patterns and Sexual Identity of Bisexual Males / Janet Lever, David E. Kanouse, William H. Rogers, Sally Carson, Rosanna Hertz 185

13. On the Diversity of Love Object Orientations Among Women / Sophie Freud Loewenstein 203

Part 2 From Lesbian Strippers and Prison Punks to Bisexual Subjects: The History of a Research Literature 217

Section 4 Looking at the Past Through Bi-Colored Glasses 219

14. Academic Literature on Situational Homosexuality in the 1960s and 1970s / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 221

15. Homosexuality in Prison / George L. Kirkham 250

16. Lesbian Behavior as an Adaptation to the Occupation of Stripping / Charles H. McCaghy, James K. Skipper Jr. 267

Section 5 Bisexuality by Another Name 277

17. Heterosexual Gays, Heterosexual Lesbians, and Homosexual Straights / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 279

18. Bisexual and Gay Men in Heterosexual Marriage: Conflicts and Resolutions in Therapy / Eli Coleman 307

19. The Commencement of Bisexual Activity in Swinging Married Women Over Age Thirty / Joan K. Dixon 316

Section 6 A Topic in Its Own Right 333

20. Pioneers in Contemporary Research on Bisexuality / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 335

21. Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues / Philip W. Blumstein, Pepper Schwartz 339

Section 7 Attention for All the Wrong, and All the Right, Reasons 353

22. Bisexuality in HIV Research / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 355

Section 8 Coming Out and Coming of Age 401

23. The Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Sexuality of Bisexuality / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 403

24. Neutralizing the Political Threat of the Marginal Woman: Lesbians' Beliefs About Bisexual Women / Paula C. Rust 471

25. Effects of Sexual Orientation on Interpersonal Judgment / Joseph Istvan 498

26. "Coming Out" in the Age of Social Constructionism: Sexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women / Paula C. Rust 512

Section 9 From Bisexual Chic to Bisexual Activism 535

27. Popular Images and the Growth of Bisexual Community and Visibility / Paula C. Rodriguez Rust 537

28. Bisexual Chic: Anyone Goes / Newsweek 554

29. A Perilous Double Love Life / David Gelman, Lisa Drew, Mary Hager, Monroe Anderson, George Raine, Sue Hutchison 556

30. Bisexuality Emerges as a New Sexual Identity / John Leland, Steve Rhodes, Peter Katel, Claudia Kalb, Marc Peyser, Nadine Joseph, Martha Brant 560.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-626) and indexes.

ISBN:

0231102267

0231102275

OCLC:

42659926