Publication
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007), Edition: 1st, 256 pages
Collections
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2007)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: Jennifer Baumgardner (cisgender woman) identifies as bisexual.
Publisher's Summary: In a society supposedly grown more open and accepting in the wake of Stonewall, women’s liberation, and AIDS activism, what can it mean that bisexuality continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures and dismissed as either a phase or, worse, a cop-out? With intimacy and humor, the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual and the struggle she has undergone to reconcile the privilege she has garnered as a women who is perceived as straight with the empowerment and satisfaction she’s derived from her relationships with women...