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      Bisexual and Pansexual Identities
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      Bisexual and Pansexual Identities

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      Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

      Bisexual and Pansexual Identities

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      Bisexual and Pansexual Identities book

      Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation
      ByNikki Hayfield
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 17 July 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429464362
      Pages 142
      eBook ISBN 9780429464362
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences
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      Hayfield, N. (2020). Bisexual and Pansexual Identities: Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429464362

      ABSTRACT

      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

      chapter 1|23 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|18 pages

      A history of bisexual invisibility within sexology and psychology

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Invisible or invalidated

      The marginalisation of bisexual identities

      chapter 4|18 pages

      In/visible visual identities

      chapter 5|22 pages

      The erasure and exclusion of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and plurisexual people within education, employment, and mainstream mass media

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Becoming visible and reflecting on visibility

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