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Bisexuality and Popular Culture (Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender)
Author(s): Ian Kinane
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: May 27, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 408 pages
- ISBN-10: 3032174937
- ISBN-13: 9783032174932
Book Description
This is an excellent and timely book that makes a valuable contribution to the field of bisexual studies. The range of genres covered in this book, and the ways in which authors have been able to site their discussions in similar theoretical ground (liminality, erasure, stereotypes) without the discussions ever feeling repetitive, is impressive. Instead, each chapter sheds new light on these complex topics. This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and general audiences seeking to make sense of the ways in which bisexuality is represented in popular culture.”
– Dr Helen Bowes-Catton, Senior Lecturer, The Open University, UK
This book explores the multifaceted representations of bisexuality within the cultural imagination, focusing on how bisexuality is portrayed and understood through literature, television, and media. By examining these diverse forms, this collection addresses the critical need to understand bisexuality’s crucial role in shaping societal perceptions of sexual identity.
Bisexuality and Popular Culture considers how bisexuality disrupts traditional binaries and offers new frameworks for understanding bisexual identity.
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This is an excellent and timely book that makes a valuable contribution to the field of bisexual studies. The range of genres covered in this book, and the ways in which authors have been able to site their discussions in similar theoretical ground (liminality, erasure, stereotypes) without the discussions ever feeling repetitive, is impressive. Instead, each chapter sheds new light on these complex topics. This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and general audiences seeking to make sense of the ways in which bisexuality is represented in popular culture.”
– Dr Helen Bowes-Catton, Senior Lecturer, The Open University, UK
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This book explores the multifaceted representations of bisexuality within the cultural imagination, focusing on how bisexuality is portrayed and understood through literature, television, and media. By examining these diverse forms, this collection addresses the critical need to understand bisexuality’s crucial role in shaping societal perceptions of sexual identity.
Bisexuality and Popular Culture considers how bisexuality disrupts traditional binaries and offers new frameworks for understanding bisexual identity.
Ian Kinane is Reader in Literature and Popular Culture and Director of the Centre for Society, Culture, and Social Change at the University of Roehampton, UK. His books include On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction (2024), Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence (2021), Isn’t it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture (2021), Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade (2019), Theorising Literary Islands (2016), and (with Downey and Parker) Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (2016). He is also the general editor of the online, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies and the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Ian Fleming.
About the Author
Ian Kinane is Reader in Literature and Popular Culture and Director of the Centre for Society, Culture, and Social Change at the University of Roehampton, UK. His books include On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction (2024), Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence (2021), Isn’t it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture (2021), Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade (2019), Theorising Literary Islands (2016), and (with Downey and Parker) Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (2016). He is also the general editor of the online, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies and the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Ian Fleming.
