Under the Bisexual Umbrella

Diversity of Identity and Experience

Corey E. Flanders

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138330870
• eBook ISBN: 9780429825019
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book focuses on the complexities of the bisexual umbrella—the phrase that is often used to describe a wide range of sexual identities, attractions, and behaviors that indicate attraction to more than one gender. As a consequence, the bisexual umbrella groups together a very heterogeneous group of people. The writers in this book each grapple with how the bisexual umbrella is applied to a variety of communities, people, and experiences, and discuss the benefits and costs of these applications. Topics include exploration of the similarities and differences between two-spirit people and bisexuals, including how their health concerns overlap and diverge, detailing personal and empirical experiences of sexual fluidity, descriptions of how bisexual, pansexual, and queer people conceptualize sexual identity, and explorations of pansexuality. Through these writings, the diversity underneath the bisexual umbrella is revealed. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.

Index

Aboriginal women 19

agokwe 9

agokwe-nini 9, 16

Albo, B. 41

Allison, R. 31

American Institute of Bisexuality 50

Analysis of covariance (ANCOVAs) 131

Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel 13

anxiety 74, 126

Anything that Moves 3–4

attraction: and bisexuality 40–1, 50

and closed-ended question on bisexuality 45–6

fluidity in 130

general descriptions of 45

sexual 46, 129–30

Autumn, E. 96

Baker, J. Andrew 9, 22

Balsam, K. F. 51

Barker, M. 30

Barret, Bob 17

Bauer, G. R. 41

behavior: and bisexuality 40–1, 50

bisexuality definition by 40–1

interpersonal 94

negative health 135

sexual see sexual behavior

biohobic violence 20 see also violence

bisexual(s): definition 21

descriptions of sexual identity among 108–22

distinctions in identity across 119–20

distinctions of attraction 114–16

income of 18

mental health 10–12

safety and support for 91–2

supporting the notion of 118–19

bisexual activists 3

Bisexual Community Advisory Committee 10, 12

bisexual identity: closed-ended responses on 44

vs. pansexual identity 64–5

politics 23

qualities necessary for 49

and social media 23

bisexuality 8

and attraction 40–1, 50

and behavior 40–1, 50

binary/nonbinary distinctions 119

bisexual integration within GSAs 103–4

bisexual learning via gay-straight alliances 100

case and participant recruitment 93

and colonization 21–2

as complex identity 14–16

conceptualizing 108–9

definition 39–42, 109

and desire 40–1, 50

within health research 8–9

identity construction 90–1

informed consent and participants 94

vs. pansexuality 41–2, 64–5

and poverty 18–19

prejudicial attitudes toward 98–9

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction to the Special Issue
• Two-Spirit and Bisexual People: Different Umbrella, Same Rain
• Home-o: Being at Home with Reflections on Hetero-Homosexual Identity
• Defining Bisexuality: Young Bisexual and Pansexual People’s Voices
• What’s in a Name? Exploring Pansexuality Online
• Perceptions of Individuals Who Are Non-monosexuals held by Graduate Students: A Q Methodological Study
• “It’s not Pans, It’s People”: Student and Teacher Perspectives on Bisexuality and Pansexuality
• “Regardless of Their Gender”: Descriptions of Sexual Identity among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Identified Individuals
• We’re Here and We’re Queer: Sexual Orientation and Sexual Fluidity Differences Between Bisexual and Queer Women
• Index