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Summary:

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus on contemporary and emerging identities. Nikki Hayfield draws on research from psychology and the social sciences to offer a detailed and in-depth exploration of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality. The book discusses how early sexologists' understood gender and sexuality within a binary model and how this provided the underpinnings of bisexual invisibility. The existing research on biphobia and bisexual marginalisation is synthesised to explore how bisexuality has often been invisible or invalidated. Hayfield then evidences clear examples of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality within education, employment, mainstream mass media, and the wider culture. Throughout the book there is consideration of the impact that this invisibility and invalidation has on people's sense of identity and on their health and wellbeing. It concludes with a discussion of how bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality have become somewhat more visible than in the past and the potential that visibility holds for recognition and representation. This is fascinating reading for students and academics interested in in bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexual spectrum identities and for those who have a personal interest in bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality.

Table of Contents:

• A history of bisexual invisibility within sexology and psychology
• Invisible or invalidated : the marginalisation of bisexual identities
• In/visible visual identities
• The erasure and exclusion of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and plurisexual people within education, employment, and mainstream mass media
• Becoming visible and reflecting on visibility.

Author/Creator:

Hayfield, Nikki , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Bisexual and pansexual identities: exploring and challenging invisibility and invalidation [by Hayfield, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Bisexual and pansexual identities [by Hayfield, N.] (London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 — ISBN 9781138613751; OCLC Number 1140377684)

Related Series:

Gender and sexualities in psychology

Subjects:

Bisexuality

Bisexual people — Psychology

Sexual minorities — Identity

Bisexual identity

Bisexual people

Sexual minorities

Bisexuals — Psychology

Bisexuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nikki Hayfield is a social psychologist whose research interests are in bisexualities, pansexualities, asexualities, and sexualities more widely. She has published research on a range of topics including bisexual identities, marginalisation, and relationships.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 26, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ74 .H39 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780429875410 (electronic book)
042987541X (electronic book)
9780429464362 (electronic book)
0429464363 (electronic book)
9780429875397 (electronic book)
0429875398 (electronic book)
9780429875403 (electronic book)
0429875401 (electronic book)
9781138613751 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1138613754 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781138613775 (paperback) [Invalid]
1138613770 (paperback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4324/9780429464362

OCLC Numbers:

1154813999