Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men (eBook)

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University and a founding member of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council Inc. (AGMC).

Part One: IntroductionChapter One: “Outside Belonging”: An Introduction to the Women, their Men, and the ResearchChapter Two: “Border Women and Their Border Men”: Some Theories, Definitions, and Debates Framing the ResearchChapter Three: “You know, the old Kinsey scale”: Women Talk about their Partners’ BisexualitiesChapter Four: “I Have A Sexuality Too”: Women Discussing their Own SexualitiesPart Two: The JourneysChapter Five: “Starting Out Knowing”: Negotiating the Beginning of the RelationshipChapter Six: “Changing Course Midstream”: From Closet to ConfrontationChapter Seven: “We’ve Arrived Where We Started and Know the Place for the First Time”: Women Reflecting on ‘Staying the Course’ or ‘Splitting Up’Part Three: Mapping the LandscapeChapter Eight: “New Rules, No Rules, Old Rules or Our Rules”: Women Designing MOREs with their PartnersChapter Nine: “The Problem Is That He’s A Man, Not That He’s Bisexual”: Women Discussing Masculinity, Misogyny, Privilege, and PowerChapter Ten: “What Do We Tell The Kids?”: Women Talk about Bisexual FathersChapter Eleven: “Spreading Disease With the Greatest of Ease”: Negotiating Sexual Health IssuesPart Four: Borderdwelling as Outsiders BelongingChapter Twelve: “Minute by Minute Maneuvering”: Navigating the HeteroworldChapter Thirteen: “Ewww, girl germs”: Women’s Experiences and Perceptions of HomonormativityChapter 14: “The Priest Told Him to Marry Me and He’d Go Straight”: Bordering Religion and Spirituality in MOREsChapter Fifteen: “It’s A Matter of Family Honor and Shame”: Negotiating Ethnic Identity and Community CodesChapter Sixteen: “When Your Relationship Isn’t Recognized by Relationship Services”: Misrepresentations and Erasures in Health ServicesPart Five: Not Just Belonging but Blooming in the BorderlandsChapter Seventeen: “A door that hasn’t been opened”: Women’s Final Words for Future Women