Title: Social Constructionism, Hegemonic Heteronormativity and Bisexuality
Abstract: In spite of the proliferation of sexualities research to have emerged from debates within Social Constructionism and Queer Theory, there is still a limited canon of academic work which specifically explores bisexuality as a sexual identity and, in particular, explores the social stigmas that bisexual women face and how these stigmas are allowed to develop creating a poignant tension between societal attitudes and bisexuality. The author reflects on excerpts from a previous research paper which explored the narratives of bisexual women’s experiences in order to sociologise these experiences through the theoretical lenses of Goffman’s notion of Stigma, Mead’s focus on the symbolic significance of language as well as Foucauldian and Queer theoretical analyses of the socially inscribed characteristics of sexualities. I assert that a renewed Sociological Imagination of bisexuality must be produced in order to cut through the restrictive nature of hegemonic heterosexist and homosexist discourses within which, bisexual women experience the social world.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-06-06
Language: en
Type: article
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