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Book SynopsisBisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and the experiences and realities of people who desire more than one sex or gender
Counteracting the predominance of work on bisexuality based in Ango-American contexts, this collection of fifteen contributions from both early-career and more senior academics reflects the current state of research in Europe on bisexuality and people who desire more than one sex or gender. The book is structured around three interlinked themes that resonate well with the international research frontiers of bisexual theorising: bisexual citizenship, intimate relationships, and bisexual+ identities. This book is the first of its kind in bringing together research from various European countries including Austria, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scandinavian countries, as well a
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"A much needed anthology of bi+ research and theory, beyond the standard anglo-american focus. This book brings together a wealth of exciting and important chapters from a diverse range of locations and perspectives, with a particularly rich exploration of bi+ relationships of all kinds. A must-read for sexuality and relationship scholars."
— Meg-John Barker, author of The Bisexuality Report, The Psychology of Sex, and Sexuality: A Graphic Guide.
"Framed geographically as European, this collection is far-reaching in its relevance, challenges and insights. It takes us into the depth and breadth of excellent scholarship coming from both renowned established and ground-breaking emerging European scholars about bisexualities in Europe and bisexualities globally. Another strength of this collection is its embrace of the need to connect academia, advocacy, allyship and activism when addressing important issues such as asylum-seeking, religious repression, transphobia, bisexual health, sexual intimacies, misogyny and family diversity.."
— Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, editor of Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion by Inclusion, and the Absence of Intersectionality, author of Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women
Table of Contents1 Introduction , Section 1 Sexual Citizenship, 2 Bisexuality in Finland as an Identity and as a Conceptual tool in Sexual Minority Politics, 3 Unfinished Intimate Citizenship: Experiences of Bisexual People in Portugal, 4 Understanding the Dutch organised bisexual community: experiences of former community leaders, 5 Monosexual Church Policies and Non-Heteronormative Youth Cultures, 6 The Invisible Bisexual Asylum Seekers, Section 2 Intimate Relationships, 7 Becoming of the circle of friends after a bisexual break-up, 8 Bisexual women and Monogomy, 9 Narratives of consensual affective non-monogamies in bisexual and pansexual people. 10 Discourses of Erotic Autonomy in Bisexual Feminist Critiques of Compulsory Monogamy, 11 Forms of Bisexual Injustice: Bi, Being, and Becoming, Section 3, 12 Bisexuality as surplus of sexual order: A biographical case study, 13 Challenges of bisexual identity construction – between identity politics and postmodern refusal, 14 Bisexual bodies, 15 Outlook
