CRISS Director publishes new book on Bisexuality
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:32:00 BST
Professor Surya Monro’s new book has jumped onto the Palgrave Macmillan bestseller list. The book, entitled Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories, sets a new agenda for considering sexualities and genders, by focusing on the lives of people who are bisexual or who have other identities that are not heterosexual, lesbian or gay, in an international context.
The book engages with a number of key questions including: what are bisexual people's lived experiences? How can these be understood using social and political theories? What are the implications of bisexuality for future theorising and research? In addressing these and other questions, this book maps out under-explored territory. It does so by looking at topical themes, including sex and relationships, community, the commodification of bisexuality, and activism. The book also shows how understandings of bisexuality can usefully inform the social sciences in areas such as identity construction, social inequalities, postcolonial relations, and citizenship. The book has been described as an ‘ambitious and engaging work’ by Professor Steven Seidman, State University of New York, USA.
