Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary - Lain A.B. Mathers

Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary

Bi+ Identity, Community, and Politics
Buch | Hardcover
210 Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0880-0 (ISBN)
99,95 inkl. MwSt
This book explores how bi+ people confront stigma, navigate exclusion from straight, gay, and lesbian people, and conceptualize social change and argues how monosexism is a powerful social structure that is the root of broader sexual inequalities.
Even though they are the largest sexual minority group in the United States, the lives, joys, and struggles of bi+ people, as well as the social structure of monosexism, are regularly overlooked in social scientific research and broader conversations about sexuality and gender. Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary interrupts this pattern of erasure by providing readers with a sociological examination of sexualities in society that places bi+ people and monosexism at the center of analysis. Through exploring bi+ peoples experiences navigating identity, community, and politics, the author argues that to understand and challenge gender and sexual inequalities, we must first recognize and interrogate the structure of monosexism. At a time when attacks on LGBTQ people are increasing, this book offers an incisive examination of how an often-overlooked group within the LGBTQ community makes sense of their place in the world and what we can learn from attending to the specific issues that bi+ people face in society.

Lain A.B. Mathers is associate professor of sociology and affiliated faculty in gender studies at Indiana State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Constructing Bi+ Identity Part I: Navigating Bisexual Stigma

Chapter 2: Constructing Bi+ Identity: Negotiating Pansexual Stigma and the use of Queer

Chapter 3: Navigating LGBTQ Spaces and People

Chapter 4: Navigating Straight Spaces and People

Chapter 5: Justifying Exclusion and Searching for Community

Chapter 6: Framing Bi+ Political Issues

Conclusion

Methodological Appendix

References

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 237 mm
Gewicht 503 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-6669-0880-0 / 1666908800
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-0880-0 / 9781666908800
Zustand Neuware
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