A review by lowbrowhighart
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics by Jennifer Baumgardner

notes: the "problem of bisexuality" as the nonexistence of a mixture of gay and straight within our imaginations; how we interpret our arousal is connected to our life narratives; society views bisexuality the wrong way - defining identity based on someone other than the bisexual person herself; sexuality is who you are, not who you sleep with, and doesn't change according to whom you're sleeping with; understanding bisexuality requires listening to the stories of bisexual people; AC/DC as metaphor for bisexuality; fear that experience may be uncommon and will result in isolation, alienation, and marginalization; bisexuality has been treated and therapized rather than defined; "cringing is often a sign of unfinished political business"; women organizing women offers a different sense of possibility; social conventions prevent the deviation from heterosexuality; compulsory heterosexuality; "the threatened loss of new possibility"; depicting women's love lives in black-or-white terms suppresses the messier realities of sexuality; sense of flux; home as nowhere and/or multiple locations and realities; straight relationships with gay expectations; paradox of feminism: "women expect equality from their relationships, but not from men"; bisexuality both subverts dominant power and provides access to it; bisexual women as more independent; women's bisexuality perceived as unthreatening; virgin/whore dichotomy; "stereotype threat"; "our individuality is part of our power"; no singular straight or gay experience; bisexuals as connectors - bridging people with and without privilege; positive aspect of entitlement - knowing relative freedom means one expects and enjoys it and provokes social change in order to keep or regain that freedom; entitlement = confidence = visibility = political power; bisexual visibility could make straight people the minority; margins as spaces of radical openness, but still small and limiting; value as a person shouldn't derive solely from being "other"; sexuality should originate in the self and not be defined as a reflection of who a person is sleeping with; bisexuals as subjects, not objects; subjectivity as a sign of having rights and privilege; many people's lives don't make sense in a gay/straight context - sexuality is more complex