Women's Bisexuality as a Category in Social Research, Revisited

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12759159
AutoresC Lynn Carr (Seton Hall University, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume11
Fascículo4
Páginas550-559
Data de publicação2011-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Bisexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1529-9716 • E-ISSN: 1529-9724
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15299716.2011.620868
OpenAlexW1987651442
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas30

This reconsideration of a previous study, “Bisexuality as a Category in Social Research,” examines recent abstracts of social scientific, scholarly articles to see how common is the practice of merging lesbian and bisexual women subjects in social scientific research and, in studies that do distinguish between lesbian and bisexual women, how often that distinction is a useful one. Reviewing 292 abstracts of social scientific articles published in 2010, the study found that bisexual women are being treated as a category in social research by a growing number of researchers. This separate treatment yields results; bisexual women have been found to have distinct experiences regarding health, discrimination and substance abuse. It is likely that bi women possess instructive experiences in many other regards, if only more researchers would include them as a category of their own

Homosexuality · Lesbian · Social category · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology