Bisexuality and the challenge to lesbian politics : sex, loyalty, and revolution / / Paula C Rust
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| Autore: |
Rust Paula C
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| Titolo: |
Bisexuality and the challenge to lesbian politics : sex, loyalty, and revolution / / Paula C Rust
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1995] |
| ©1995 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.489664 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sexual behavior surveys - United States |
| Lesbianism - Political aspects - United States | |
| Bisexuality - Political aspects - United States | |
| Bisexual women - United States - Psychology | |
| Bisexual women - United States - Attitudes | |
| Lesbians - United States - Psychology | |
| Lesbians - United States - Identity | |
| Lesbians - United States - Attitudes | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-356) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. DEBATE IN THE LESBIAN PRESS: INTRODUCING THE ISSUES -- 2. "EXPERTS'" VOICES: LESBIANISM, BLSEXUALITY, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -- 3. BEHIND THE SCENES: HOW THE STUDY WAS DONE AND WHO PARTICIPATED IN IT -- 4. LESBIANS' VOICES: WHAT DO LESBIANS THINK ABOUT BISEXUALITY AND ITS ROLE IN SEXUAL POLITICS? -- 5. WHO BELIEVES WHAT? THE IMPACT OF LESBIANS' PERSONAL POLITICS AND EXPERIENCES ON THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD BISEXUALITY -- 6. THE PINK AND BLUE HERRING: THE ISSUE IS LESBIANISM, NOT BISEXUALITY -- 7. BISEXUAL WOMEN'S VOICES: WHAT DO BISEXUAL WOMEN THINK ABOUT BISEXUALITY AND THE ROLE OF BISEXUALS IN SEXUAL POLITICS? -- 8. ANOTHER REVOLUTION ON THE POLITICAL WHEEL: THE POLITICIZATION OF BISEXUALITY -- APPENDIX A: FIGURES -- APPENDIX B: TABLES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society, bisexual women are often perceived as a threat or as a political weakness. Bisexual women feel that they are regarded with suspicion and distrust, if not openly scorned. Drawing on her research with over 400 bisexual and lesbian women, surveying the treatment of bisexuality in the lesbian and gay press, and examining the recent growth of a self-consciously political bisexual movement, Paula Rust addresses a range of questions pertaining to the political and social relationships between lesbians and bisexual women. By tracing the roots of the controversy over bisexuality among lesbians back to the early lesbian feminist debates of the 1970s, Rust argues that those debates created the circumstances in which bisexuality became an inevitable challenge to lesbian politics. She also traces it forward, predicting the future of sexual politics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-7151-3 |
| 0-585-33985-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910213828303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)