Special Issue: Volume 9, 2009, Issues 3-4, July-December 2009
Issue Editors: Drs. Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Jonathan Alexander
Special Issue Rate: US$25
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This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality features 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 even though bisexuality has been mobilized in literature, popular culture, communities, and subcultures to query heteronormativity, as well as monosexual expectations and constructions of sexual identity and amorous practices.

This special issue of The Journal of Bisexuality explores this elided territory by bringing together a variety of scholarly articles, drawing on multiple disciplinary methodologies and research practices, including approaches based in the social, political, and psychological sciences, in literary and cultural theory, in economics, philosophy, the arts, and other broadly humanist endeavors.

About the Journal
The Journal of Bisexuality is the first professional quarterly to publish both professional articles and serious essays on bisexuality and its meaning for the individual, the community, and society. The journal is ideal for both academic and public libraries that want to offer their patrons the latest research on the topic of bisexuality. Articles are peer-reviewed and frequently come from inter- and multi- disciplinary perspectives. Sponsored by the American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB), the journal covers a wide range of topics on bisexuality including new bisexual research, bisexual issues in therapy, growth of bisexual movement, bisexuality and the media, bisexual history, and different bisexual lifestyles.