E. Anderson
Sixth Form Girls and Bisexual Burden
Anderson, E.; McCormack, M.; Ripley, M.
Authors
M. McCormack
M. Ripley
Abstract
Much of the literature concerning sexual minorities describes various forms of social mistreatment, alongside the psychological ill effects of minority stress. However, bisexual individuals are often described as having additional burdens compared with other sexual minorities. We conceptualise the collective of these social problems as ‘bisexual burden’, and examine for it through the lived experiences of 15 openly bisexual girls (aged 16–17) from sixth form colleges throughout the UK. We show that, among this cohort, decreasing cultural stigma attached to sexual minorities results in participants being more accepted by their heterosexual and gay peers, compared to previous literature, mostly without the negative components of bisexual burden. We find that when mistreatment does occur, it does so immediately after she comes out; however, this diminishes quickly due to the cultural unacceptability of homo/biphobia in these settings.
Citation
Anderson, E., McCormack, M., & Ripley, M. (2016). Sixth Form Girls and Bisexual Burden. Journal of Gender Studies, 25(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2013.877383
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Dec 10, 2013 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 13, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Dec 11, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 14, 2014 |
Journal | Journal of Gender Studies |
Print ISSN | 0958-9236 |
Electronic ISSN | 1465-3869 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 25 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 24-34 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2013.877383 |
Keywords | Bisexuality, Bisexual burden, Biphobia, Female, Youth, Sexuality. |
Files
Accepted Journal Article
(148 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Gender Studies on 13/01/2014, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09589236.2013.877383.
You might also like
Inclusive Masculinity Theory: Overview, reflection and refinement
(2016)
Journal Article
Gay guys using gay language: Friendship, shared values and the intent-context-effect matrix
(2016)
Journal Article
An exploratory study of a new kink activity: “Pup Play”
(2015)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search