Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey
The books commonly known as the Kinsey Report were Dr Alfred C. Kinseys monumental scientific publishing achievement in 1948, often compared to the atomic bomb for its impact on the American public. On the sexagennial anniversary of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, this book focuses on Alfred C. Kinseys work and life. Sixteen chapters consider the Kinsey legacy, tracing the development of modern American bisexuality, and posing an intriguing and illuminating look at many aspects of bisexuality in Kinseys life as depicted and lived in popular biographical culture and media.
Contributors to this stellar collection of outstanding writing include a member of Kinseys original research team, Dr Paul H. Gebhard, PhD, Kinsey Institute Director Emeritus John Bancraft, as well as leading names in the fields of sex research, GLBTIQA activism, and bisexual writing.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality and was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Excellence in Bisexual Literature.
Ron J. Suresha is a former board member of the Bisexual Resource Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and was recently named to the editorial board of the academic quarterly, Journal of Bisexuality, now published by Taylor & Francis. Suresha presented on this topic, Kinsey Zero through Sixty, at the 2008 University of Rhode Island Kingston Symposium on GLBTIQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) issues. His other books, include the GLBTIQA non-fiction work, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions, and the anthology Bi Men: Coming Out, a 2006 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Suresha lives in eastern coastal Connecticut with his husband.
Bisexual Perspectives
on the Life and Work of
Alfred C. Kinsey
Edited by Ron J. Suresha
First published 2010 by Routledge
Published 2014 by Routledge
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Contents
Ron J. Suresha
Brian Dodge, Michael Reece, and Paul H. Gebhard
Jonathan Alexander and Ron J. Suresha
Ron J. Suresha and Jonathan Alexander
Ron J. Suresha
Jennifer E. Germon
William E. Burleson
Stephanie Fairyington
Ron J. Suresha
Carol Queen
Mike Szymanski
David L. Ulin
Jay Neal
Ron J. Suresha
In memory of Dr. Fritz Klein
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who understood fully how Kinsey liberated bisexuality
Photograph by Nathalie Schueller.
Jonathan Alexander, Ph.D., is General Editor of the Journal of Bisexuality, and a nationally recognized scholar in the fields of sexuality studies and writing studies. His books include Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others (edited with Karen Yescavage), Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy, Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies (with Deborah T. Meem and Michelle Gibson), Argument Now, a Brief Rhetoric (with Margaret Barber), Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web, and Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing (edited with Marcia Dickson).
John Bancroft, M.D., previously Director, is now a Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He has been involved in various aspects of sex research for the past thirty years, and is a world authority on the relationship between reproductive hormones and sexual behavior. A fuller biography of Dr. Bancroft and summary of several relevant papers introduces the article.
Wayne M. Bryant is the author of the 1997 book Bisexual Characters in Film: from Anas to Zee. He is a cofounder of Biversity Boston, cofounder of BiCamp, president emeritus of the Bisexual Resource Center, and has served as producer for more than a dozen major bisexual events.
William E. Burleson is the author of the 2005 book Bi America: Myths, Truths and Struggles of an Invisible Community. In addition to being a columnist for Lavender Magazine in Minneapolis, Minn., and a regular contributor to the Lambda Literary Report, Burlesons essays about bisexuality have appeared in many publications. Burleson has helped coordinate BECAUSE: the Midwest Conference on Bisexuality and the Eighth International Conference on Bisexuality. He is a frequent speaker at college campuses, bookstores, and conferences. Burleson works in public health in the field of STD and HIV prevention, where he is currently focused on efforts to improve healthcare for gay and bisexual men.
Brian Dodge, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Health Science and Associate Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion. He received his Ph.D. in Health Behavior (with minors in Human Sexuality and Dutch) from Indiana University in 2002. He completed his postdoctoral training in the NIMH-funded Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection Fellowship in the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He served as an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida for two years, then rejoined the faculty of Indiana University in 2007.
Stephanie Fairyington is a research editor at a major womens fashion magazine in New York City, and a freelance journalist who writes on gender and sexuality. Her writing has appeared in the New York Observer, Timeout New York, Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Out, and the Advocate.
Paul H. Gebhard, Ph.D., is a distinguished American anthropologist and sexologist. Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, he earned a B.S. in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1947, both from Harvard University. From 1956 to 1982, Gebhard was the second director of the Kinsey Institute, following Alfred Kinsey himself. He co-authored the second Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion; The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations of the 19381963 Interviews Conducted by the Institute for Sex Research; and Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types
