2. Jennifer Baumgarder
Author, journalist, film
producer, cultural
critic,activist, and public
speaker
Subjects
Feminism (third wave)
bisexuality
Single parenthood
Sex
Rape
Abortion
3. continued
Attended Lawrence University in Moved to NYC in 1993 and began
Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in working for Ms. Magazine
1992
Jennifer has written for magazines
Helped organize a feminist group including:
called “Guerilla Theater”
Glamour
Started an alternative newspaper
called The Other, which focused on The Nation
women’s liberation Babble
Maxim
SoapBox Inc. Speakers Who Speak
Out, I Had an Abortion Project
(2004), I Was Raped Project (2008)
4. Major Works
ManifestA: Young
Women, Feminism, and
the Future (2000)
Grassroots: A Field
Guide for Feminist
Activism (2004)
Look Both Ways:
Bisexual Politics (2007)
5. Definition of bisexuality
“hermaphrodite” or “sexually attracted by both
sexes.”- Webster’s Dictionary
“someone who has the ability to be sexually
attracted to men and women”
“bisexuals are part of as well as apart from
heterosexual society and the lesbian and gay
community”
6. Theories
Freud Fliess
Innate bisexuality There is a masculine and
feminine side to each of us
Progressed through 3
phases Males suppress feminine
in themselves and
females the masculine
Closer to what we now
know as androgyny
7. Freud’s theories
We are all born bisexual but mature adults
repress their homosexual desire and get
together with the opposite sex
Root of bisexuality was in culture and not
biology
Sexuality changes and evolves throughout one’s
life
8. Alfred Kinsey
Developed Kinsey Scale
Rates 3 elements of sexuality: sexual desires,
sexual practices, and sexual identity
Scale from (exclusively straight)0-6(exclusively
gay)
3-represented equally straight and gay
9. Discussion
“bisexuality, so clearly a major component in human
sexuality, was studied again and again-so why does being
bisexual remain denied or diminished?”
do you think bi issues are different from gay issues, since
all your problems come from the same source,
homophobia?
Why would lesbians/gaycommunitydiscriminate against
bisexuals?
