Leo’s Reviews > Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality > Status Update

I also found this book, have not started it though. Would you recommend it?

I knew Shaw from her excellent BBC podcast Bad People, and really like her approaches. Halfway, I would say I recommend the book. She succeeds in challenging worldviews and scientific approaches that center heteronormativity and points to bisexuality or at least flexibility makes much more sense. She is also really good at explaining scientific facts and reasoning. I don't like the way the author is inserting herself and her own experiences. I think she's doing it to make the book more readable and accessible but it's a little gratuitous. I also don't think a lot that she writes is particularly innovative or 'hidden' but I also don't think that that's the point for the readership she has in mind. It annoys me that she doesn't dig deeper in for example why and how biphobia in the queer community or biphobic stereotypes are problematic, but I'm only half way.

Hmm okay, so it might be pushed back a bit then :p thanks for the answer though!