Book Review: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics (Mother Jones)
Jan 26th, 2025 by Viviane
By Jennifer Baumgardner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $24.
Book Review By Ann Friedman
Americans tend to see bisexual women in one of two ways: Either they’re lesbians in denial, or they’re “lesbians until graduation” who sleep with women while they pursue gender studies degrees and then go back to dating men. In Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner challenges these stereotypes and makes the case that a huge number of women are attracted to and pursue significant relationships with members of both sexes. But because there is no bisexual movement to speak of, many women who date both women and men have a hard time figuring out what it means to be bisexual. (more…)