"I Don't Know If She Is Bisexual or If She Just Wants to Get Attention": Analyzing the Various Mechanisms Through Which Emerging Adults Invisibilize Bisexuality

Journal of Bisexuality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 191-214

  Alarie, Milaine ^a   Gaudet, Stéphanie ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

binegativity; bisexual erasure; emerging adulthood; gender; sexual identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877246974     PISSN: 15299716     EISSN: 15299724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2013.780004     Document Type: Article

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