Bisexuality, Bad Girls, and Bullying. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Woolley, Susan W.
• Is Part Of: Journal of bisexuality. Volume 20:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 40
• Page End: 65
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: proper femininity -- sexual harassment -- gender regulation -- ethnography -- secondary school; Bisexuality -- Periodicals; 306.765
• DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2020.1711840
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1529-9716

Abstract

Abstract: Bisexual-identified students face ongoing challenges such as denial of their identity, negative stereotypes, biphobia, and sexual harassment at school. Stigma and denial of bisexuality contribute to the erasure and invisibility of bisexual people, resulting in limited role models and positive representation for bisexual youth. Based on three years of ethnographic research in a U.S. public high school, this article examines how social regulation of gender and sexuality work to reinforce notions of proper femininity and uphold cis-heteronormativity.