Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics. Paula C Rust

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       Unflattering Images

       Positive Images

       Existentially Invalidating Images

       Political Images

       Images of Bisexual Privilege—“The Best of Both Worlds” and Political Distrust

       Images of Bisexual Oppression—“The Worst of Both Worlds” and Political Sympathy

       Overall Perceptions of Bisexual and Lesbian Oppression

       Underlying Conceptualizations: Two Different Kinds of Hybrids and Apoliticality

       Dissenting Voices

       Summary

       How Do Lesbians Feel about Bisexual Women?

       Summary

       5. Who Believes What? The Impact of Lesbians’ Personal Politics and Experiences on Their Attitudes toward Bisexuality

       Race, Education, Class, and Other Demographic Differences

       Political Differences: Do Political Lesbians Speak for Us All?

       Politics and the Issue of Bisexual Existence

       Politics and Sexual Conceptualizations, Beliefs, and Feelings about Bisexuality

       Personal Experiences—The Role of Empathy

       Summary

       6. The Pink and Blue Herring: The Issue Is Lesbianism, Not Bisexuality

       The Personal and the Political: Constructing Lesbianism as a Feminist Issue

       Debate over the Relationship between Lesbianism and Feminism

       Controversy over the Relationship of Lesbian Sex to Lesbianism

       Controversy over the Nature of Gender

       Competing Political Traditions: The Feminist Tradition and the Ethnic Tradition

       The Importance of Lesbianism as a Choice in the Feminist Political Tradition

       The Construction of Lesbianism as a Choice in Lesbian Feminist Discourse

       The Importance of Essence in the Ethnic Political Tradition and the Construction of Lesbians as an Ethnic Group

       Feminist Choice or Ethnic Essence: Internal Contradictions Are the Legacy of a Dual Heritage

       Bisexuality: The Issue That Exposes Controversies and Contradictions in Lesbian Ideology

       Summary

       7. Bisexual Women’s Voices: What Do Bisexual Women Think about Bisexuality and the Role of Bisexuals in Sexual Politics?

       Does Bisexuality Exist?

       What Is Bisexuality? Or, Why Is Everyone Standing Up?

       Bisexuals’ Images and Feelings about Themselves

       Positive Images

       Unflattering and Existentially Invalidating Images

       Political Images

       Social and Political Preferences—Images Translate into Feelings

       The Impact of Bisexual Women’s Personal Politics and Experiences on Their Attitudes toward Bisexuality

       Race, Education, Class, and Other Demographic Differences

       Political Differences: Do Political Bisexuals Speak for Anyone?

       Personal Experiences

       Summary

       8. Another Revolution on the Political Wheel: The Politicization of Bisexuality

       The Bisexual Press: Forum for the Discussion of Bisexual Identity, Community, and Ideology

       Déjà Vu?

       The Future of Sexual Identity Politics

       Appendix A: Figures

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