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Women in relationships with bisexual men : bi men by women
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- Creator
- Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, co-researched with Sara Lubowitz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- x, 541 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0739134574, 9780739134573, 9780739134597
- OCLC
- ocn920017642
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-523) and index.
- Introduction. "Outside belonging": an introduction to the women, their men, and the research ; "Border women and their border men": some theories, definitions, and debates framing the research ; "You know, the old Kinsey scale": women talk about their partners' bisexualities ; "I have a sexuality too": women discussing their own sexualities -- The journeys. "Starting out knowing": negotiating the beginning of the relationship ; "Changing course midstream": from closet to confrontation ; "We've arrived where we started and know the place for the first time": women reflecting on 'staying the course' or 'splitting up' -- Mapping the landscape. "New rules, no rules, old rules or our rules": women designing MOREs with their partners ; "The problem is that he's a man, not that he's bisexual": women discussing masculinity, misogyny, privilege, and power ; "What do we tell the kids?": women talk about bisexual fathers ; "Spreading disease with the greatest of ease": negotiating sexual health issues -- Border dwelling as outsides belonging. "Minute by minute maneuvering": navigating the Heteroworld ; "Ewww, girl germs": women's experiences and perceptions of homonormativity ; "The priest told him to marry me and he'd go straight": bordering religion and spirituality in MOREs ; "It's a matter of family honor and shame": negotiating ethnic and racial identities and community codes ; "When your relationship isn't recognized by relationship services": misrepresentations and erasures in health services -- Not just belonging but blooming in the borderlands. "A door that hasn't been opened": women's final words for future women