Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective
Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Bisexuality, Volume 3, Number 1 2003.
Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective
Serena Anderlini-DOnofrio, PhD
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Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Bisexuality, Volume 3, Number 1 2003.
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Anderlini-DOnofrio, Serena, 1954-
Women and bisexuality: a global perspective / Serena Anderlini-dOnofrio.
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Co-published silmultaneously as Journal of bisexuality, volume 3, number 1, 2003.
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1. Bisexuality. 2. Bisexual womenPsychology. I. Journal of bisexuality. II. Title.
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Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective
CONTENTS
Serena Anderlini-DOnofrio
Jennifer Taub
Heather E. Macalister
Cheryl Stobie
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Sara Lubowitz
Serena Anderlini-DOnofrio
Ingrid Ehrbar
Heidi Reyes
Aimee & Jaguar
Reviewed by Regina Reinhardt
Jo Eadie
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Serena Anderlini-DOnofrio, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. She is the author of The Weak Subject: On Modernity, Eros, and Womens Playwriting (Associated University Presses, 1998), a comparative theory of womens erotic desires and contributions to modern drama. Her numerous articles on womens writing and relatedness have appeared in several refereed journals. Between 1995 and 1997, she co-coordinated the Bisexual Forum of San Diego. Her most recent article, Grammars of Touch: Physical, Spiritual, and Erotic Bodies in Massage Therapy, has appeared in Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts (April 2002). She is currently working on a memoir and on a book on bisexuality, health, feminism, ecology, and holism.
Jo Eadie is a European activist and academic based in England. He helped to set up the UKs national bisexual newsletter, Bi Community News, co-edited The Bisexual Imaginary, and has contributed papers on bisexuality to Activating Theory and Bisexual Men in Culture and Society. He is currently ill with chronic fatigue syndrome, from which he hopes he will recover one day soon (E-mail: jpe1@staff.ac.uk).
Ingrid R. Ehrbar, MA, is a doctoral student at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus. She is very interested in sex, gender, sexuality, and diversity issues in general. Other interests include sex, gender, and sexuality, and issues of couples and families. Correspondence concerning her poem should be addressed to Ingrid R. Ehrbar, Illinois School of Professional Psychology/Chicago Campus, Two First National Plaza, 20 South Clark Street, Third Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603 (E-mail: IREhrbar@att.net).
Sara Lubowitz is a researcher, writer and activist in HIV/sexual health education and support. Her work includes establishing the Women Partners of Bisexual Men Project at the AIDS Council of New South Wales, Australia, which involved the facilitation of peer support groups and the production/publication of educational materials, such as booklets, posters and video training programs (E-mail: mariapc@deakin.edu.au).
Heather E. Macalister, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in adult development and psychology of women. She currently works at Duke University (E-mail: hmacalister@nc.rr.com).
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She has published several books, chapters, and articles on issues of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in health and education. These include Someone You Know (Wakefield Press, 1991, 2002), Australias first AIDS biography; Girls Talk: Young Women Speak Their Hearts and Minds (Finch Publishing, 1998); Tapestry: Five Generations in an Italian Family (Random House, 1999); and Boys Stuff: Boys Talking About What Matters (co-authored with Wayne Martino, Allen & Unwin, 2001). Maria welcomes information for, and participation in, her current research into the schooling experiences of bisexual people and children from multipartnered and multisexual families, for her forthcoming book, Border Sexualities and Border Families in Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) (E-mail: mariapc@deakin.edu.au).
Regina Reinhardt has a PhD in Counseling Psychology and was in private practice for 12 years in San Diego. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Bisexuality and the Bisexual Forum, a support and discussion group for bisexuals, and was on the steering committee for the 1993 and 1998 Bi-West Conferences. She has given lectures on bisexual relationships at different forums, including at the International Bisexual Conference in Berlin, Germany and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and has appeared on local television. She organized the first ever Bisexual Art Exhibit in San Diego and she sculpts human figures depicting a bisexual motif. She is the Assistant to the Editor of the Journal of Bisexuality.
Heidi Reyes is a fiberartist and poet. Her fiberart includes weaving on a floor loom, an inkle loom and on a tapestry loom, and crocheting. Most of her fiberart, as well as her painting and drawing, reflects her Mexican heritage. The other elements of her fiberart, painting, and drawing reflect her American heritage as she has lived and experienced it in the midwest. She also enjoys expressing herself through written poetry. Some of her poetry reflects her Mexican heritage and some reflects her American heritage, demonstrating her bicultural understanding of her life.