Look Both Ways by Jennifer Baumgardner - ISBN: 9780374531089
Paperback
Takes a look at the visibility of gay and bisexual characters, performers, and issues on the national cultural stage. This book discusses the author’s experience as a bisexual, and the struggle she’s undergone to reconcile the privilege she’s garnered as a woman who is perceived as straight.

Look Both Ways

Bisexual Politics

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    12 July 2008

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Summary

For the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the “sexual non-preference of the ‘90s.” In “Look Both Ways”, Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of gay and bisexual characters, performers, and issues on the national cultural stage. Despite the prevalence of bisexuality among Generation X and Y women, she finds that it continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures, and dismissed either as a phase or a cop-…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780374531089
ISBN-10:0374531080
Author:Jennifer Baumgardner
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Imprint:Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:12 July 2008
Weight:295g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm
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Critics Review

“Jennifer Baumgardner’s Look Both Ways is a jaunty, fearless, personal and political look at bisexuality today. Because she knows that sex is a way we communicate, not just procreate, she gives us a glimpse of a freer future in which sexuality is less about who is talking and more about what is said.” –Gloria Steinem

About The Author

Jennifer Baumgardner

Jennifer Baumgardner, co-author of Manifesta and Grassroots, frequently writes and lectures on feminism, activism, and popular culture for magazines and on college campuses around the country.

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