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Sexual Fluidity: by “bisexual”? Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond 2009, Harvard University Press The BRC uses bisexual (or BI for bi-inclusive) as Lisa Diamond studied a group of 100 an umbrella term for people who recognize and women for over ten years and found honor their potential for sexual and/or emotional that women’s is much more fluid than has been attraction to more than one gender (pansexual, fluid, acknowledged before. While fairly omnisexual, queer, and all other free-identifiers). academic in its focus, the book has a lot of personal stories that illustrate We celebrate and affirm the diversity of identity the tremendous variety of sexual and expression regardless of labels. Books on and relationship experience. The extensive reference listing at the end of the book is a great resource. : Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber 1995, Simon & Schuster Marjorie Garber’s tome of over 500 pages investigates An Annotated Listing bisexuality covering a multitude of perspectives, from sexuality research to Freud, from celebrity gossip to examples of characters in movies and TV. It’s a comprehensive study for the time period and it has a treasure trove of information about bisexual history that shouldn’t be overlooked. Women and Bisexuality by Sue George 1993, Scarlet Press An early pioneering work that included a survey of bi women in the United Kingdom. George provides personal stories and data that she collected, and sheds light on the conflict between the and bi women’s communities.

Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio 2003, Harrington Park Press A short book of essays and poems by women from Australia, South Africa, Germany, Mexico, and the U.S. Some are research-based, others are more personal P.O. Box 170796 perspectives. Boston, MA 02117

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The Bisexual Resource Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The BRC creates and distributes resources for and about bisexuals throughout the LGBT and ally community. Bisexual Characters in Film: from Anais to Zee Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith Fill Your Shelf by Wayne M. Bryant edited by Debra Ruth Kolodny and 1997, Routledge 2000, Continuum Starting with the silent films up until the publishing An interesting compilation of essays and Explore Your Self date, Bryant provides a guide to spotting bi actors, poetry by writers from a broad swath characters, and even directors throughout film of spiritual traditions—pagan, Buddhist, Over the last twenty years, an array of books has been history. The book makes special note of the unsavory Christian, Jewish, and uncategorized. published covering different aspects of bisexuality. Hollywood tendency to use bisexuals as scapegoats for Very personal stories trace how Included in this annotated and alphabetical listing are deviancy: serial killers, psychos, and manipulators. spirituality and sexuality intersect in books that are still fairly easy to locate, either online or the writers’ lives, and how acceptance in libraries. The descriptions are not reviews but rather Bisexual Women in the 21st Century of their bisexuality often opens up their short synopses of what to expect to find in the book. spirituality in wonderful new ways. edited by Dawn Atkins 2003, Haworth Press This is not a comprehensive listing of all books available This volume was simultaneously Current Research on Bisexuality about bisexuality but a selection that offers the reader published as an issue of the Journal of edited by Ronald C. Fox a good indication of what is available. A tip to readers: Bisexuality and includes various articles 2004, Harrington Park Press use the notes and reference sections of these analyzing bi women’s perspectives in This volume was simultaneously published as an issue books to find other great sources. politics, culture, psychology, and more of the . Articles examine several by , Sue George, Carol different new studies on bisexuality, including bis of Bi America Queen, Regina Reinhardt, and others. color, mental health issues, women’s friendships, and relationship patterns. Plus, the editor provides an by William E. Burleson exhaustive reader’s guide to social science literature 2005, Harrington Park Press The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe focused on bisexuality. Written from Burleson’s perspective by Nicole Kristal and Mike Szymanski as a tenured bi activist, Bi America 2006, Alyson Books provides insights of both the bi activist This may be the only book out there : Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, and the bi social communities. There is about bisexuality that actually has a Second Edition good basic information to help define sense of humor about it. The authors edited by & Sarah Rowley bisexuality and the range of experience really know the ins and outs of the bi 2009, Bisexual Resource Center it encompasses. Burleson highlights bi community—social and political—and Edited by well-known bi activist and activist history and ponders how the they share important information (e.g. speaker Robyn Ochs, Getting Bi is now Internet and LGBT advances will affect lots of bi film and TV tips) while joking in its second edition. An international the bi community now and in the future. about our foibles so as not to take anthology (220 people from 42 ourselves too seriously. countries) that includes personal stories; political analysis of the bi movement; by Loraine Hutchins & Lani Ka’ahumanu Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: and advice for youth, parents, and 1991, Alyson Books Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution partners. A great first book for people newly or trying to understand a bi loved one. In 1991, this book rocked the . by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust Finally, there was a book that shared the experiences 1995, NYU Press of bi-identified people. It took our lives seriously and An in-depth look at the relationship between Look Both Ways: showed how many diverse ways people live bisexually. and bisexual women, including data from a survey by by Jennifer Baumgardner Twenty years later, the poetry, interviews, and Rust. Also explores bisexual politics as it relates to 2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux personal essays that explore personal experience as and the broader activist women’s community. With a feminist perspective, Baumgardner uses well as political and spiritual perspectives continue to her own bi coming out story and life experience to offer important insights into our community. illustrate society’s understanding or lack thereof about Bisexuality in the United States: bisexuality. She analyzes bisexuality in the media (e.g. Bi Men: A Social Science Reader Ani DiFranco, Anne Heche and others) and offers a very Coming Out Every Which Way edited by Paula C. Rodriguez Rust personal story of being a bi woman in contemporary 2000, Columbia University Press society. edited by Ron Jackson Suresha & Pete Chvany More academic than many other books 2005, Harrington Park Press on this list (and longer, too, at over Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities This volume was simultaneously 600 pages), the social science reader Plural Desires: published as an issue of the Journal of offers a wide range of articles and an edited by Nancy Chater, Dionne Falconer & Sharon Lewis Bisexuality. This collection of personal extensive bibliography. 1995, Sister Vision Press essays offers an amazing variety of bi A Canadian anthology that explores bisexuality with male experiences, so often ignored or attention to sensuality, sexuality, and sexual desire. distrusted. A must-read for bi men and A varied mix of traditional and nontraditional poetry, those who love them. interviews, essays, and even a comic strip offer many different perspectives on bisexual experience.