Steven Angelides: A History of Bisexuality

USA 2001, 281 pp., brochure, € 28.99
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Why is bisexuality the object of such scepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, theory, and politics of sexuality. The author explores the reasons why, and invites us to rethink our preconceptions about sexual identity. Retracing the evolution of sexology, and revisiting modern epistemological categories of sexuality in psychoanalysis, gay liberation, social constructionism, queer theory, biology, and human genetics, the author argues that bisexuality has functioned historically as the structural other to sexual identity itself, undermining assumptions about heterosexuality and homosexuality.

Udo Rauchfleisch u.a.: Gleich und doch anders

D 2002, 244 S., geb., € 28.27
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Die Klientengruppe der Lesben, Schwulen und Bisexuellen ist, was die Fachliteratur für Psychotherapie und Beratung anbelangt, bislang erstaunlicherweise vernachlässigt worden: dabei wäre es von besonderer Bedeutung, wenn Lesben, Schwule und Bisexuelle in Behandlungssituationen gut informierten, vorurteilsfreien Therapeuten und Beratern gegenüberstehen würden, die mit ihren spezifischen Lebensstilen, ihren abweichenden Entwicklungsbedingungen und besonderen Belastungssituationen vertraut sind und die zudem gängige Behandlungskonzepte auf die spezifischen Bedürfnisse anpassen könnten. Leider ist das notwendige Wissen oft nicht vorhanden, so dass eine angemessene, richtige Beratung nicht erfolgt. »Gleich und doch anders« versucht diese Informationslücke zu schließen. Die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten von Kriseninterventionen und Einzelbehandlungen über Paartherapien bis hin zu Familien- und Gruppentherapien werden angesprochen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Beschreibung der verschiedenen psychischen Störungen, die vor dem Hintergrund einer gleichgeschlechtlichen Orientierung des Patienten auftreten können. Eigene Kapitel widmen sich der Homophobieproblematik sowie der Beratung und Therapie von HIV-Positiven, bzw. von manifest Aids-Kranken.

Clare Hemmings: Bisexual Spaces

UK 2002, 244 pp., brochure, € 31.99
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Where are all the bisexuals? In a society dominated by an either/or mentality, bisexuality often defies explanation. Combining queer theory with cultural geography, autobiographical, archival, and media sources, the author insists on the importance of bisexuality in lesbian, transgendered, and queer spaces.

Mark Blasius, Shane Phelan (eds.): We Are Everywhere

USA/UK 1997, 844 pp., brochure, € 34.72
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This historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics brings together the key primary sources relating to the politics of homosexuality. Presenting political, historical, legal, literary and psychological documents which trace the evolution of the gay and lesbian movement, this edited volume includes such diverse documents as organization pamphlets, essays, polemics, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, and academic papers – from the beginnings in the 19th century (Karl H. Ulrichs, Magnus Hirschfeld, and John A. Symonds) via legal and governmental studies concerning rights of gay and lesbian citizens or articles from the early U.S. liberation movement publications such as »Mattachine Review«, »The Ladder«, and »ONE« to documents of the AIDS epidemic, of current activism, of movements within »the movement« (bisexuals, S/M, conservatives), and finally a look at the future of gay and lesbian politics. Together the documents allow readers to examine the development of political movements based on homosexual identity, the history of government persecution of homosexuality, the impact of feminism on the modern lesbian and gay rights movement, and the emergence of queer theory.

Eva Cantarella: Bisexuality in the Ancient World

USA 2002, 286 pp., pb, € 18.70
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Bisexuality was intrinsic to the cultures of the ancient world. In both Greece and Rome, same gender sexual relationships were acknowledged, and those between men were not only tolerated but widely celebrated in literature and art. Nor for Greeks and Romans was homosexuality an exclusive choice, but alternative to and sometimes concurrent with the love of the opposite sex. Whilst exploring aspects of the female condition in Classical antiquity, the author came to understand that the sheer ubiquity of male homosexuality had a fundamental impact on relationships between men and women. Drawing on the full range of surviving sources – legal texts, inscriptions, medical documents, poetry and philosophical literature – she explores the psychological, social and cultural mechanisms that determined sexual choice, considers the extent to which that choice was free, directed or coerced in each civilization and so reconstructs the homosexual cultures of Greece and Rome. In Greece the relationship between adults and young boys was deemed the noblest of associations, a means of education and spiritual exhaltation. The author reveals that such relationships, though highly regulated and never left to individual spontaneity, were more than pedagogic and platonic: they were fully carnal. In Imperial Rome, however, the sexual ethic mirrored the political, and males were cruelly domineering in love as in war. The critical sexual distinction was that between active and passive, the victims commonly being slaves or defeated enemies, rather than young Roman freemen.