about Method
Existentially Invalidating 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
How Do Lesbians Feel about Bisexual Women?
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
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
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
What Is Bisexuality? Or, Why Is Everyone Standing Up?
Bisexuals’ Images and Feelings about Themselves
Unflattering and Existentially Invalidating Images
Social and Political Preferences—Images Translate into Feelings
Race, Education, Class, and Other Demographic Differences
Political Differences: Do Political Bisexuals Speak for Anyone?
8. Another Revolution on the Political Wheel: The Politicization of Bisexuality
The Bisexual Press: Forum for the Discussion of Bisexual Identity, Community, and Ideology
The Future of Sexual Identity Politics
