marializzbee's review against another edition
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Dr. Klein's book was a landmark study in 1979 on bisexuality in America. While his view was progressive in 1979, academic and cultural understandings of sexuality, especially bisexuality, have skyrocketed. Klein often confuses gender and sex, perpetuates the gender binary of attraction for bisexuals ("attracted to both genders" rather than "all genders"), and confuses polyamory and bisexuality (the communities overlap but capacity for multiple loves is not the same as capacity for multiple attractions). Klein himself is not bisexual (or does not disclose this information) and it is painfully obvious in how he analyzes his patients and discusses living and identifying as a bi person.
This book is only important for historical context of bisexual studies. If you want current understanding of bisexuality and bi politics, I suggest Shiri Eisner's "Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution" and Marjorie Garber's "Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life."
This book is only important for historical context of bisexual studies. If you want current understanding of bisexuality and bi politics, I suggest Shiri Eisner's "Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution" and Marjorie Garber's "Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life."
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