Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution

The author identifies as a lesbian. She went to several LGBT pride parades and asked lesbians what they thought about bisexual women. Her results are diverse; some may find them contradictory or inconclusive. Still. this book has the potential to ease tensions between lesbians and bisexual women. It raises the issue of how women-loving women establish communities but also police those communities' boundaries. This is one of the few sociological studies of female bisexuality that I've found; most other books are the topic are autobiographical. Rust does say something problematic about black lesbians that I think she could have omitted from the text. Otherwise, I thought this was a great research topic. I wish someone would explore similar questions among same-gender-loving men.