The epistemic contract of bisexual erasure.

From: Stanford Law Review | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: Yoshino, Kenji | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Teaching a seminar on Sexual Orientation and the Law, I faced an old inconsistency so frontally that it became difficult to avoid giving it sustained attention. I began the course in what appears to be a common way,(1) by posing basic questions about sexual orientation. I asked why contemporary American society(2) organizes people according to their sexualities;(3) why we do so on the basis of sexual orientation in particular;(4) and why, when classifying by...

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