Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

by Julia Shaw
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

by Julia Shaw

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Overview

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is a provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist.
 
Significant strides have been made in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. For psychological scientist and bestselling author Dr. Julia Shaw, the dearth of information on bisexuality was crushing, so she dug deep and found a colorful and fascinating world that she could help bring out of the shadows. In Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, Shaw explores all that we know about the world’s largest sexual minority through a personal journey that starts with her own openly bisexual identity and celebrates the resilience and beautiful diversity of the bi community. This rigorous and entertaining book will challenge us to think deeper about who we are and how we love.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683359098
Publisher: Abrams
Publication date: 06/28/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 292,672
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Dr. Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist at University College London and part of Queer Politics at Princeton University, which works for LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and civil rights. She is actively involved in bisexual research and is the founder of the international Bisexual Research Group. Dr. Shaw also has a hit BBC podcast, Bad People, where together with her cohost she uses research to examine some of society’s most pressing issues. She is the author of Evil and The Memory Illusion. She lives in London.
 
Dr. Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist at University College London and part of Queer Politics at Princeton University, which works for LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and civil rights. She is actively involved in bisexual research and is the founder of the international Bisexual Research Group. Dr. Shaw also has a hit BBC podcast, Bad People, where together with her cohost she uses research to examine some of society’s most pressing issues. She is the author of Evil and The Memory Illusion. She lives in London.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction: I Want More ix

1 The Bi Option 1

Inventing Bisexuaiity 2

Blunt Questions 6

The Klein Grid 11

Middle Ground 16

2 Our History 20

We're Here, We're Queer! 23

The Obscene Book 27

Sexual Inverts 32

Decapitated Angel 35

The Unwelcomed Visitor 39

3 Nothing But Mammals 44

Born This Way? 45

Gay Giraffes 49

Darwinian Paradox 52

Ramifications 55

Bent Bars 58

Come Play with Me 64

4 The Bisexual Closet 67

Coming Out Into 68

Family Secrets 72

Work It 75

Troubled 81

Biversity 84

Why Us? 89

Freedom 93

5 Invisi-Bi-Lity 96

Do I Look Bi? 98

Our Own Space 104

Sex Perversion 107

Parasocial 110

Sexy but Deadly 116

6 It's Political 120

Where Love Is Illegal 121

Sexuality On Trial 126

Can't Change Me 132

Loophole 136

No Promo Homo 142

Political Powerhouses 150

7 Free Love 155

Cherry Chapstick 157

Everybody Loves Threesomes 160

Compulsory Monogamy 165

Chain Reaction 169

Intimacy Transformation 172

Conclusion: Bidentity 175

Acknowledgments 181

Notes 183

Index 215

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