Bisexuality: A Critical Reader

Bisexuality: A Critical Readerbrings together for the first time in one volume some of the most important and influential writings on bisexuality of the last 100 years. The pieces in this unique collection explore this slippery and often controversial concept from a range of perspectives, placing it in its historical and cultural contexts and interrogating its many meanings and uses. The reader is divided into four sections: *Genealogy of the Concept of Bisexualitytraces the ancestry of the concept and the ways in which its meanings have changed since the 1890s *Bisexual Identities and Bisexual Behaviorssamples some of the most important international research from the 1970s to the 1990s, discussing what it means to call oneself--or not to call oneself--"bisexual." *Bisexual Epistemologiesexamines recent arguments that bisexuality is a revolutionary concept with a dangerous potential to subvert old ways of thinking about gender and sexuality *Differencesexplores the inner dynamics of bisexuality and its possible futures in cyberspace. Truly unique and invaluable,The Bisexuality Readeradds a critical voice in the study of sexuality.