(Con)Tested Identities
Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12759235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Borver (corresponding author), Maria Gurevich, Cynthia M Mathieson |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 23-52 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Bisexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-9716 • E-ISSN: 1529-9724 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j159v02n02_03 |
| OpenAlex | W1569786328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article, based on an ongoing Canadian study of women who self-identify as bisexual, explores what it means to claim a bisexual identity. Semi-structured interviews with 22 women were analyzed using thematic decomposition, an analytic technique that combines discursive approaches with thematic analysis. Women in this study constructed their sexuality as a succession of interrelated impediments and imperatives that act in tandem to both prohibit and potentiate bisexu-ality. Specifically, they resist adopting the bisexual label while simultaneously working for bisexual visibility; they strive for credibility in a cultural context in which bisexuality occupies an ambiguous position; and they negotiate the dilemma of “belonging” to lesbian communities. Although diverse, these narratives of interrogation can be read as efforts to confront the inadequacies of dominant discourses of sexuality rooted in monosexism
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Credibility · Dilemma · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Lesbian · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Thematic analysis · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Bisexual Men’s Constructions of Sexuality and Gender
Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life
Heterosexual College Students Who Hookup with Same-Sex Partners
Category-Specificity in Sexual Interest in Gay Men and Lesbians
Sexual orientation microaggressions
"I'd Rather Get Wet Than Be Under That Umbrella"
Perceived Discrimination, Coping Mechanisms, and Effects on Health in Bisexual and Other Non-Monosexual Adults
Resisting Erasure
Polyamory and Monogamy as Strategic Identities
Practising traditional Chinese medicine in a Canadian context
Bisexuality Isn’t Exclusionary”
Minding the Noise
Discrimination and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States
Bisexual Women, Non-Monogamy and Differentialist Anti-Promiscuity Discourses
Bisexual, pansexual, queer
Shiny happy same-sex attracted woman seeking same
Neoliberalism, citizenship, and young children
The Black Sheep of the Pink Flock
Stay Still So We Can See Who You Are’
Assessing Bisexual Stigma and Mental Health Status
A Decade of the Journal of Bisexuality
Girl Friend or Girlfriend
Bisexual Identities among Women in Germany
Just a little hint’
I’m not a lesbian; I’m just a freak”
Negotiating the Binary
Bisexual women’s understandings of social marginalisation
Negotiating heteronormativity
Disciplining Bodies, Desires and Subjectivities
It’s a Comparison Thing, Isn’t It?”
Adapting to Injustice
(Dis)embodying gender and sexuality in testicular cancer
"Mostly straight" young women
Negative identity experiences of bisexual and other non-monosexual people
Substance use and related problems among U.S. women who identify as mostly heterosexual
The Impact of Social Media on Non-Monosexuals’ Responses to Discrimination
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of sexuality-based discrimination and their appearance concerns
Figuring out how to participate in the system
Our Little Secret’
British Bisexuality
Label-First Sexual Identity Development
Bisexual Practices
Finding a Needle in a Haystack
An Empirical Study into the Relationship between Bisexual Identity Congruence, Internalized Biphobia and Infidelity among Bisexual Women
Improving the Access and Quality of Public Health Services for Bisexuals
What do bisexuals look like? I don't know!' Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals
Gender outlaws or a slow bending of norms? South African bisexual women's treatment of gender binaries
Vice versa
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the LifespanPsychological Perspectives
The Thin Woman
Sex and Sensibility
The Social Organisation of Death
Sexual Dissidence
Discipline and Punish
The social construction of lesbianism
The Making of the modern homosexual
Discipline and Punish
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Bisexuality
Telling Sexual Stories
From Here to Queer
Gender Trouble
Transitions from heterosexuality to lesbianism
The thin woman
An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence
Young Women's Accounts of Sexual Activity and Sexual/ Reproductive Health
Feminism and Deconstruction
Gay Fathers and Their Children
Queer Theory
The Politics of Sexual Identity
Coming Out' in the Age of Social Constructionism
(Be)Coming Out
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |