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    Bi : the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality / Julia Shaw.

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    • Title:Bi : the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality / Julia Shaw.
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    • Variant Title:Hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality
    • Author/Creator:Shaw, Julia (Professor), author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Abrams Press, 2022.
      ©2022

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Shaw, Julia (Professor)
      Bisexuality.
      Bisexuality--History.
      Bisexuals.
    • Genre/Form:Autobiographies.
    • Description:xi, 226 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
    • Summary:"A provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist. Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal--Shaw studies the science of sexuality and she herself is proudly and vocally bisexual. It's an admission, she writes, that usually causes people's pupils to dilate, their cheeks to flush, and their questions to start flowing. Ask people to name famous bisexual actors, politicians, writers, or scientists, and they draw a blank. Despite statistics that show bisexuality is more common than homosexuality, bisexuality is often invisible. In BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, Shaw probes the science and culture of attraction beyond the binary. From the invention of heterosexuality to the history of the Kinsey scale, as well as asylum seekers trying to defend their bisexuality in a court of law, there is so much more to explore than most have ever realized. Drawing on her own original research--and her own experiences--this is a personal and scientific manifesto; it's an exploration of the complexities of the human sexual experience and a declaration of love and respect for the nonconformists among us"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Also issued online.
    • Notes:Simultaneously published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2022.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-214) and index.
    • ISBN:9781419744358 (hardcover)
      1419744356 (hardcover)
      9781683359098 (eISBN)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Bi Option
      Inventing Bisexuality
      Blunt Questions
      Klein Grid
      Middle Ground
      2. Our History
      We're Here, We're Queer!
      Obscene Book
      Sexual Inverts
      Decapitated Angel
      Unwelcomed Visitor
      3. Nothing But Mammals
      Born This Way?
      Gay Giraffes
      Darwinian Paradox
      Ramifications
      Bent Bars
      Come Play with Me
      4. Bisexual Closet
      Coming Out Into
      Family Secrets
      Work It
      Troubled
      Biversity
      Why Us?
      Freedom
      5. Invisi-Bi-Lity
      Do I Look Bi?
      Our Own Space
      Sex Perversion
      Parasocial
      Sexy but Deadly
      6. It's Political
      Where Love Is Illegal
      Sexuality On Trial
      Can't Change Me
      Loophole
      No Promo Homo
      Political Powerhouses
      7. Free Love
      Cherry Chapstick
      Everybody Loves Threesomes
      Compulsory Monogamy
      Chain Reaction
      Intimacy Transformation.
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