Sexual Fluidity Understanding Women's Love and Desire

Name: Sexual Fluidity Understanding Women's Love and Desire
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ISBN: 9780674032262

ISBN-10: 0674032268

ISBN-13: 9780674032262

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lisa M. Diamond

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Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one-hundred women for…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Will the Real Lesbians Please Stand Up?



Gender Differences in Same-Sex Sexuality



Sexual Fluidity in Action



Nonexclusive Attractions and Behaviors



Change in Sexual Attractions



Attractions to ""the Person, Not the Gender""



How Does Fluidity Work?



Implications of Female Sexual Fluidity


References


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index