Bisexuality and the challenge to lesbian politics : sex, loyalty, and revolution /

Bisexuality and the challenge to lesbian politics : sex, loyalty, and revolution /

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Author / Creator:	Rust, Paula C., 1959-
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, ©1995.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 367 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	The cutting edge Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Subject:	Lesbians -- United States -- Attitudes. Lesbians -- United States -- Identity. Lesbians -- United States -- Psychology. Bisexual women -- United States -- Attitudes. Bisexual women -- United States -- Psychology. Bisexuality -- Political aspects -- United States. Lesbianism -- Political aspects -- United States. Sexual behavior surveys -- United States. Bisexual women -- Attitudes. Bisexual women -- Psychology. Bisexuality -- Political aspects. Lesbianism -- Political aspects. Lesbians -- Attitudes. Lesbians -- Identity. Lesbians -- Psychology. Sexual behavior surveys. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12942029

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ISBN:	0585339856 9780585339856 081477444X 9780814774441 0814774458 9780814774458 9780814771518 0814771513
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-356) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Rust, Paula C., 1959- Bisexuality and the challenge to lesbian politics. New York : New York University Press, ©1995 0814774458

Description
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xx, 367 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-356) and indexes.
ISBN:	0585339856 9780585339856 081477444X 9780814774441 0814774458 9780814774458 9780814771518 0814771513