Bisexual Women : Friendship and Social Organization

ISBN-13: 9781560237037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 146 str.

M. Paz Galupo

Opis

Prevailing attitudes toward bisexuality affect every aspect of a bisexual woman's emotional and sexual life. Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization comprehensively explores the friendship relationships of bisexual women, and the ways that bisexuality shapes the friendship experience. This book fills a gap in the literature and research on bisexuality and friendship, presenting leading experts discussing the latest qualitative and quantitative studies on this rarely visited topic. This examination explains how the friendships of bisexual and bi-curious women can be affected by sexism, heterosexism, biphobia, and racism, as well as providing an insightful review of how bisexual women are portrayed in film and literature.

Spis treści

• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction (M. Paz Galupo)
• RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON BISEXUAL WOMEN’S FRIENDSHIPS
• Young Women’s Experiences Within Same-Sex Friendships: Discovering and Defining Bisexual and Bi-Curious Identity (Elizabeth M. Morgan and Elisabeth Morgan Thompson)
• Sexism, Heterosexism, and Biphobia: The Framing of Bisexual Women’s Friendships (M. Paz Galupo)
• Girl Friend of Girlfriend?: Same Sex Friendship and Bisexual Images as a Context for Flexible Sexual Identity Among Young Women (Elisabeth Morgan Thompson)
• Challenge and Promise: The Study of Bisexual Women’s Friendships (Julie R. Arseneau and Ruth E. Fassinger)
• PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON BISEXUAL WOMEN’S FRIENDSHIPS
• Fencing on Brokeback: Intersecting Bisexuality and Women’s Friendship (Julie Estep)
• Invisible Cords and Ties That Bind: Queering Female Friendship (Shoshana Magnet)
• Playing with Pieces of Paper: The Impact of Non-Labeled Spaces on Relationships (Meaghan A. Overton)
• Relating the Personal Experiences of Bisexual Women to the Friendship Literature (Marcia L. Pearl)
• INVITED COMMENTARY
• Bisexual Women’s Friendship Experiences: Challenging Identities, Challenging Friendships, Challenging Research (Jacqueline S. Weinstock)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

M Paz Galupo