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Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution By Shiri Eisner Cover Image
$26.39
ISBN: 9781580054744
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Published: Seal Press - July 2nd, 2013

"A groundbreaking exploration of bisexual politics by a revolutionary thinker" (Publishers Weekly) provides the missing piece of the puzzle for readers who identify as bisexual

Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike.


Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire By Lisa M. Diamond Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780674032262
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Published: Harvard University Press - April 1st, 2009

Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M.


Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative By Kate Harrad (Editor), Jacq Applebee (Contributions by), Meg-John Barker, PhD (Contributions by), Elizabeth Baxter-Williams (Contributions by), Jamie Q. Collins (Contributions by), Grant Denkinson (Contributions by), Symon Hill (Editor), Juliet Kemp (Editor), Fred Langridge (Editor), Kaye McLelland (Editor), Marcus Morgan (Editor), Milena Popova (Editor), H. Sharif Williams (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Kate Harrad (Editor), Jacq Applebee (Contributions by), Meg-John Barker, PhD (Contributions by), Elizabeth Baxter-Williams (Contributions by), Jamie Q. Collins (Contributions by), Grant Denkinson (Contributions by), Symon Hill (Editor), Juliet Kemp (Editor), Fred Langridge (Editor), Kaye McLelland (Editor), Marcus Morgan (Editor), Milena Popova (Editor), H. Sharif Williams (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781944934606
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Published: Thornapple Press - October 5th, 2018

Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in North America, the bisexual community still today contends with decades of misinformation stereotyping them as innately indecisive, self-loathing, and untrustworthy. Claiming the B in LGBT strives to give bisexuals a seat at the table.


Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire By Michael Amherst Cover Image
$14.95
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ISBN: 9781910924716
Published: Repeater - February 13th, 2018

Winner of the 2019 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award 

Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire. 


Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men By Ritch C. Savin-Williams Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780674976382
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Published: Harvard University Press - November 1st, 2017

Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those categories are too rigid. They are, they insist, "mostly straight." They're straight, but they feel a slight but enduring romantic or sexual desire for men. To the uninitiated, this may not make sense. How can a man be "mostly" straight?


Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories By Kata Orndorff (Editor) Cover Image
By Kata Orndorff (Editor)
$16.95
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ISBN: 9781884365096
Published: See Sharp Press - January 1st, 1999

A collection of 18 in-depth interviews with a wide range of bisexual women of different races, ages, and economic classes involved in a very wide variety of lifestyles.


Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics By Jennifer Baumgardner Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780374531089
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 4th, 2008

"A necessary read for those looking to expand their understanding of both bisexuality and the contributions of Third Wave feminism."—Rebecca Walker, Bookforum

"Revealing, smart, titillating . . . Look Both Ways [cuts] straight to the heart of many young women's fraught relationship to both feminism and their own femininity." —Jessica Clark, In These Times


A Woman Like That: Lesbian And Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories By Joan Larkin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780380802470
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - October 24th, 2000

The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world.