Bisexuality and the challenge to lesbian politics: sex, loyalty, and revolution
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| adam_text | • Contents •
Foreword by Karla Jay xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction I
1. Debate in the Lesbian Press: Introducing the Issues 7
The Publications 10
Coverage of Bisexuality in the Lesbian and Gay Press 12
2. Experts Voices: Lesbianism, Bisexuality, and the
Social Sciences 25
What Is a Model? 26
The Great Debate—Essentialism versus
Constructionism 27
A Brief History of Sexology in the United States 28
The Interplay of Politics and Science and the Downfall of
the Dichotomous Conflict Model of Sexuality 28
New Models of Sexuality 32
3. Behind the Scenes: How the Study Was Done and Who
Participated in It 36
A Brief and Nontechnical Lesson in Sampling Theory for
Nonacademic Readers 36
How Lesbian and Bisexual Women Were Recruited to
Participate in the Study 39
The Women Who Participated—Who Were They? 40
4. Lesbians Voices: What Do Lesbians Think about
Bisexuality and Its Role in Sexual Politics? 46
Does Bisexuality Exist? 47
Lesbians Who Are Skeptical 48
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Liberal Opinions and Mixed Feelings 51
Bisexuality Exists 51
Everyone Is Bisexual 53
Summary 56
What Is Bisexuality? Or, Will the Real Lesbian Please
Stand Up? 57 I
Bisexuality as a Matter of Behavior 58
Bisexuality as a Matter of Feelings 62
Bisexuality as a Matter of Identity—Or a Denial of
Identity 65
Bisexuality as a Matter of Preferences or Choices 69
Bisexuality as a Matter of Gender Blindness 69
Summary 70
What Are Bisexuals Like? 71
A Note about Method 73
Unflattering Images 77
Positive Images 79
Existentially Invalidating Images 79
Political Images 84
Images of Bisexual Privilege— The Best of Both
Worlds and Political Distrust 84
Images of Bisexual Oppression— The Worst of Both
Worlds and Political Sympathy 88
Overall Perceptions of Bisexual and Lesbian
Oppression 89
Underlying Conceptualizations: Two Different Kinds of i
Hybrids and Apoliticality 90 !
Dissenting Voices 91
Summary 93
How Do Lesbians Feel about Bisexual Women? 95
Summary 101
Who Believes What? The Impact of Lesbians
Personal Politics and Experiences on Their Attitudes
toward Bisexuality 102
Race, Education, Class, and Other Demographic
Differences 103
Political Differences: Do Political Lesbians Speak for Us
All? 107
CONTENTS xiii
Politics and the Issue of Bisexual Existence 108
Politics and Sexual Conceptualizations, Beliefs, and Feelings
about Bisexuality 109
Personal Experiences—The Role of Empathy 111
Summary 121
6. The Pink and Blue Herring: The Issue Is Lesbianism,
Not Bisexuality 123
The Personal and the Political: Constructing Lesbianism as a
Feminist Issue 126
Debate over the Relationship between Lesbianism and
Feminism 144
Controversy over the Relationship of Lesbian Sex to
Lesbianism 153
Controversy over the Nature of Gender 159
Competing Political Traditions: The Feminist Tradition and
the Ethnic Tradition 162
The Importance of Lesbianism as a Choice in the
Feminist Political Tradition 163
The Construction of Lesbianism as a Choice in Lesbian
Feminist Discourse 165
The Importance of Essence in the Ethnic Political
Tradition and the Construction of Lesbians as an
Ethnic Group 171
Feminist Choice or Ethnic Essence: Internal
Contradictions Are the Legacy of a Dual
Heritage 181
Bisexuality: The Issue That Exposes Controversies and
Contradictions in Lesbian Ideology 183
Summary 195
7. Bisexual Women s Voices: What Do Bisexual Women
Think about Bisexuality and the Role of Bisexuals in
Sexual Politics? 201
Does Bisexuality Exist? 202
What Is Bisexuality? Or, Why Is Everyone Standing
Up? 207
Bisexuals Images and Feelings about Themselves 211
Positive Images 211
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Unflattering and Existentially Invalidating Images 212
Political Images 215
Social and Political Preferences—Images Translate into
Feelings 219
The Impact of Bisexual Women s Personal Politics and
Experiences on Their Attitudes toward Bisexuality 221
Race, Education, Class, and Other Demographic
Differences 221
Political Differences: Do Political Bisexuals Speak for
Anyone? 221
Personal Experiences 222
Summary 226
8. Another Revolution on the Political Wheel: The
Politicization of Bisexuality 230
The Bisexual Press: Forum for the Discussion of Bisexual
Identity, Community, and Ideology 232
Deja Vu? 250
The Future of Sexual Identity Politics 258
Appendix A: Figures 261
Appendix B: Tables 309
Notes 321
Bibliography 345
Subject Index 357
Author Index 365
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