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Cargando... Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics (2007 original; edición 2007)por Jennifer Baumgardner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If this book had been subtitled Feminist Politics, I think I might have been more satisfied with it. Like others, I expected more about bisexuality and it's meanings as pertains to the auther's life/history, and instead I got a rehash of feminism and it's effects on sexual behavior in the author's milieu. As someone fundamentally disinterested in feminist politics, this became a problem. It's not that the book was bad, on the contrary, it was certainly well written, and the personal histories of the many women quoted were interesting, as far as they went, but the book didn't turn out to be about bisexuality as much as the title had lead me to believe. ( ) What a disappointingly boring book. Baumgardner trades in depth discussion for anecdotes and re-living second wave feminism. Her main thesis seems to be that women like women because they're not men, and there is depressingly little discussion of the whole bi part of bisexuality. Unless you really want to find out about Amy Ray's ex-girlfriend via a series of self-reaffirming stories, this book is not worth your time or money. When I read about this book in the Utne Reader, I couldn't wait to buy it. A modern, young, memoir-style account of bisexuality and politics is not one of the most common book styles around- yet just what I had been yearning for. Baumgardner's book fills a void for this type of irreverent, fresh take on post-feminist bisexuality within the context of second-wave political lesbianism. It was disappointing, however, to finish the book feeling like I had read a memoir in which the data (second wave feminism) was made to fit the theory (bisexuality) rather than the other way around. I felt more like I was reading about why straight women sometimes like women, rather than about people who truly have no criteria for sex when it comes to their lovers or partners. I recommend it, just don't set your hopes too high.
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For author and activist Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the "sexual non-preference of the '90s." Here she takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises. In a society supposedly grown more open and accepting, what can it mean that bisexuality continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures, and dismissed either as a phase or, worse, a cop-out? Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual, and the struggle she's undergone to reconcile the privilege of a woman who is perceived as straight, and the empowerment and satisfaction she's derived from her relationships with women. Her book is a study in bisexual lives lived secretly and openly, and an exploration of the lessons learned by writers, artists, and activists who have refused the either/or paradigm defended by both gay and straight communities.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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