Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century »

Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century reflects the “brave new world” of bisexual women's lives through an eclectic collection of articles that typifies an ongoing feminist process of theory grounded in life experience. The book's broad scope addresses a “world” created in response to lesbian-feminism, homophobia within the mainstream women’s movement, and sexism within the gay rights movement. The book includes Carol Queen's memoirs of the swinging lesbian scene in the 1970s, a critical examination of Alice Walker's novel The Temple of My Familiar, and a look back at the controversy surrounding bisexual inclusion in the Northampton Lesbian and Gay Pride March in Massachusetts in the early 90s. Previous groundbreaking work on bisexuality had to focus on breaking the silence around bisexual invisibility. This collection works from that foundation to explore the complexities and histories of bisexual women's lives.

Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century examines:

• tensions between lesbians and bisexual women
• the shifting place of bisexual women in society
• the use of skin color as a charged metaphor
• the inclusion of bisexuality into queer theory
• groundbreaking new work on bisexual youth
• the creative use of the “sacred whore” archetype

Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century is an essential source of social and political critique, and a vital resource for anyone interested in the complex dynamics of human sexuality, regardless of sexual orientation.

	About the Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Beauteous and Brave: Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century	1
	What's in a Name? Bisexual Women Define Their Terms	9
	(Con)Tested Identities: Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality	23
	Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar	53
	Bisexual Female Adolescents: A Critical Analysis of Past Research, and Results from a National Survey	73
	Queering Bisexuality	95
	Are You Bisexual? Are You Human?	107
	Cyborgs Among Us: Performing Liminal States of Sexuality	109
	Musing on Pain, Love, and Others	129
	Pride and Politics: Revisiting the Northampton Pride March, 1989-1993	143
	Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships	163
	How Do I Get to a Bi-Bar?	173
	British Bisexual Women: A New Century	175
	Lesbian Love in the Swingin' Seventies: A Bisexual Memoir	193
	Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers and the Problematics of the Embodied Sacred Whore	205
	The Relationship Between Women's Sexual Identity and Perceived Wellness	227
	High and Low: Bisexual Women and Aesthetics in Chasing Amy and High Art	243
	The "Weak" Subject: On Modernity, Eros and Women's Playwriting	267
	Index	273