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New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
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"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex." -Gore Vidal
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LibraryThing member Crowyhead
Sometimes hugely theoretical, but fascinating and entertaining nonetheles.
LibraryThing member notuboc
This is a hefty tome, and it explores just about every nook and cranny in pursuit of a fuller understanding of the term "bisexuality." I wish it didn't assume that I knew so much about topics like Freud and the origins of modern thinking on sexual orientation, but it was already quite long, so I
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can see where I'll have to look that up on my own. What this book did quite nicely was examine bisexuality as seen from every angle. Of course it discussed the Greeks, where your partner's social status was perhaps more important than their gender, and the Kinsey report, where bisexuality was a non-mentioned statistical overlap, but it also discussed the tension between gay rights and bisexuality, why the term bisexuality is so hard to define in the first place, and the reluctance of people who identify as "straight" to come forward about their desires for people of all genders. As a English major, I found the section on literature to be especially interesting. In the end, with so much information, it became a bit of a jumble, but I certainly learned a lot. Show Less
LibraryThing member Branddobbe
This book starts out well enough. In the early chapters, Garber makes some points that I nodded along with. However, she runs out of anything interesting to say a few chapters in, and from that point draws on her experience as an English professor by going into mind-numbing literary analysis: this
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is what Tiresias did, this is what Freud said, this is what a novel no one's ever read talks about. It becomes excruciating to read, and it really makes no sense why it's there. The book would be a lot better, in my opinion, if it only comprised of the first quarter. Show Less
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606 p.; 25 cm
ISBN
0684803089 / 9780684803081
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