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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, looking to develop their understanding of bi+ identities and needs. It will also be of relevance to people interested in a broad range of topics, including sexuality, gender, feminism, trans and non binary identities, LGBTQ+ topics, and everyday sociology.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
