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“Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections”

 A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality

Edited by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

 and Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of California, Irvine

This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality invites scholarly and research-oriented essays that explore potential theoretically or empirically understood connections and intersections between bisexuality and queer theory.

Queer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative analytical tools in the humanities and social sciences.  Scholars in fields as diverse as literary studies and anthropology to women's studies, gender studies, and legal studies have benefited greatly from queer theory's call to scrutinize identity and social structures as they are organized by heteronormative relations and suppositions.  At the same time, queer theory has its own blindspots in its examination of sexualities, sexual cultures, and the movement of the erotic between and among people.  In particular, queer theory has been quite silent about bisexuality.  This elision strikes us as odd given the many ways in which bisexuality has been mobilized in literature,...

“The Future of Bisexuality”

A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality

 Edited by Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of California, Irvine

• How has the emergence of bisexuality in specific communities, in the mass media, in the public sphere affected larger discourses about sex and sexuality?  What are some long-term ramifications of such effects?
• How do bisexuals and bisexual communities affect social spaces—and how might such...