Making Space for Bi+ Identities: Explorations of Genders, Identities, and Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780367710187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str.

Rosie Nelson

Opis

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 develop their understanding of bi+ identities and needs. It will also be of interest to people interested in a broad range of topics, including sexuality, gender, feminism, trans and non binary identities, LGBTQ+ topics, and everyday sociology.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.