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Baumgardner's book should actually be called the emergence of open bi-sexuality among women.

Not that it's anything new, but it has reached the "trend level" label in the media, and Baumgardner -- a veteran journalist for progressive publications and social advocate -- brings her personal experience and perspective to the subject matter.

As her book demonstrates, it's not really a political issue: it's a personal choice issue, as it should be in a free society.

"Jennifer Baumgardner's Look Both Ways is a jaunty, fearless, personal and political look at bisexuality today. Because she knows that sex is a way we communicate, not just procreate, she gives us a glimpse of a freer future in which sexuality is less about who is talking and more about what is said."

--Gloria Steinem


"In a time when the powers that be are closing borders, narrowing our thinking and sexuality, Look Both Ways is a brave and celebratory call to open to complexity, to live in the questions, to surrender to the non-PC world of desire, to become sexual nomads."

--Eve Ensler, creator of V-Day and The Vagina Monologues


From the Publisher:

"For the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, bisexuality has always been more than the “sexual non-preference of the ’90s.” In Look Both Ways, Baumgardner takes a close look at the growing visibility of gay and bisexual characters, performers, and issues on the national cultural stage. Despite the prevalence of bisexuality among Generation X and Y women, she finds that it continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures, and dismissed either as a phase or a cop-out. With intimacy and humor, Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual, and the struggle she’s undergone to reconcile the privilege she’s garnered as a woman who is perceived as straight and the empowerment and satisfaction she’s derived from her relationships with women."


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