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Sexual fluidity : understanding women's love and desire / Lisa M. Diamond.

by Diamond, Lisa M. (Lisa Michelle)

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Harvard University Press, 2008.

Women -- Sexual behavior.

9780674032262 (pbk.)

9780674026247 (alk. paper)

333 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-308) and index.

1. Will the Real Lesbians Please Stand Up? -- 2. Gender Differences in Same-Sex Sexuality -- 3. Sexual Fluidity in Action -- 4. Nonexclusive Attractions and Behaviors -- 5. Change in Sexual Attractions -- 6. Attractions to "the Person, Not the Gender" -- 7. How Does Fluidity Work? -- 8. Implications of Female Sexual Fluidity.

"Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through different stages of life, different social groups, and most important, different love relationships." "This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has followed 100 women for more than 10 years, from adolescence into adulthood. In this book they tell their stories, which are illuminated by Diamond's review of an enormous body of research on the psychology of love and the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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