Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One Paving the Way for Research on Bisexuality

Section 1 Wherefore Art Thou, Bisexuality?

Criticisms of the Scholarly Literature on Sexuality for Its Neglect of Bisexuality

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Bisexuality: Reassessing Our Paradigms of Sexuality

Jay P. Paul

A Little Bit of Lavender Goes a Long Way: A Critique of Research on Sexual Orientation

A. P. MacDonald, Jr.

Section 2 Now You Don't See It, Now You Do

Alternatives to Binary Sexuality: Modeling Bisexuality

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Identity Conflict or Adaptive Flexibility? Bisexuality Reconsidered

Gary Zinik

A Critical Examination of the Concept of Gender

Marilyn J. Freimuth

Gail A. Hornstein

The Periodic Table Model of the Gender Transpositions: Part II. Limerent and Lusty Sexual Attractions and the Nature of Bisexuality

James D. Weinrich

Beyond Gender: The Basis of Sexual Attraction in Bisexual Men and Women

Michael W. Ross

Jay P. Paul

From Sexual Identity to Sexual Relationships: A Contextual Shift

John P. De Cecco

Michael G. Shively

Gender Identity and Sexual Behaviour

Harry Brierley

Section 3 How Many Bisexuals Are There?

Review of Statistical Findings About Bisexual Behavior, Feelings, and Identities

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Behavior Patterns and Sexual Identity of Bisexual Males

Janet Lever

David E. Kanouse

William H. Rogers

Sally Carson

Rosanna Hertz

On the Diversity of Love Object Orientations Among Women

Sophie Freud Loewenstein

Part Two From Lesbian Strippers and Prison Punks to Bisexual Subjects: The History of a Research Literature

Section 4 Looking at the Past Through Bi-Colored Glasses

Academic Literature on Situational Homosexuality in the 1960s and 1970s

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Homosexuality in Prison

George L. Kirkham

Lesbian Behavior as an Adaptation to the Occupation of Stripping

Charles H. McCaghy

James K. Skipper Jr.

Section 5 Bisexuality by Another Name

Heterosexual Gays, Heterosexual Lesbians, and Homosexual Straights

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Bisexual and Gay Men in Heterosexual Marriage: Conflicts and Resolutions in Therapy

Eli Coleman

The Commencement of Bisexual Activity in Swinging Married Women Over Age Thirty

Joan K. Dixon

Section 6 A Topic in Its Own Right

Pioneers in Contemporary Research on Bisexuality

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Bisexuality: Some Social Psychological Issues

Philip W. Blumstein

Pepper Schwartz

Section 7 Attention for All the Wrong, and All the Right, Reasons

Bisexuality in HIV Research

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Section 8 Coming Out and Coming of Age

The Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Sexuality of Bisexuality

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Neutralizing the Political Threat of the Marginal Woman: Lesbians' Beliefs About Bisexual Women

Paula C. Rust

Effects of Sexual Orientation on Interpersonal Judgment

Joseph Istvan

``Coming Out'' in the Age of Social Constructionism: Sexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Paula C. Rust

Section 9 From Bisexual Chic to Bisexual Activism

Popular Images and the Growth of Bisexual Community and Visibility

Paula C. Rodriguez Rust

Bisexual Chic: Anyone Goes

Newsweek

A Perilous Double Love Life

David Gelman

Lisa Drew

Mary Hager

Monroe Anderson

George Raine

Sue Hutchison

Bisexuality Emerges as a New Sexual Identity

John Leland

Steve Rhodes

Peter Katel

Claudia Kalb

Marc Peyser

Nadine Joseph

Martha Brant

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Copyright Acknowledgments