British Bisexuality: A Snapshot of Bisexual Representations and Identities in the United Kingdom
@article{Barker2008BritishBA, title={British Bisexuality: A Snapshot of Bisexual Representations and Identities in the United Kingdom}, author={Meg John Barker and Helen Bowes-Catton and Alessandra Iantaffi and Angela Cassidy and Laurence R. Brewer}, journal={Journal of Bisexuality}, year={2008}, volume={8}, pages={141 - 162} }
This article summarizes the state of bisexuality in the United Kingdom today. First the authors provide an overview of the United Kingdom Bisexual Conference (BiCon) and the studies conducted at the Conference by the Bisexual Research Group in the summer of 2004. Then they provide an in-depth examination of the representations of bisexuality in the British media to give a picture of the prevailing context in which U.K. bisexuals live. Following this they present the results of the two pieces of…
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