Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University and a founding member of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council Inc. (AGMC).

Pallotta-Chiarolli identifies a number of reasons that prompted her to undertake the research for this book: she was interested in understanding how relationships between women of various sexualities and bisexual men succeed or fail; how relations with other individuals and groups are negotiated; and what it is like to be a woman in a relationship with a bisexual man. From a broader perspective, she also wanted insight into what such dyads reveal about intimate relationships in the early part of the 21st century. The author's numerous goals have resulted in a thorough and, at times, thoroughly daunting book of over 500 pages (including references) that might be aptly titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men.' The information presented comes from a variety of theoretical paradigms as well as from the author's and other experts' research. The 'narratives, vignettes, and voices' provided by the snowball sample of 78 female respondents provide deep insight into their relationships. For many, the opportunity to speak openly about their non-traditional relationships was cathartic. For readers, the informants' candor is one of the book's main strengths. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• Part One: IntroductionChapter One: “Outside Belonging”: An Introduction to the Women, their Men, and the ResearchChapter Two: “Border Women and Their Border Men”: Some Theories, Definitions, and Debates Framing the ResearchChapter Three: “You know, the old Kinsey scale”: Women Talk about their Partners’ BisexualitiesChapter Four: “I Have A Sexuality Too”: Women Discussing their Own SexualitiesPart Two: The JourneysChapter Five: “Starting Out Knowing”: Negotiating the Beginning of the RelationshipChapter Six: “Changing Course Midstream”: From Closet to ConfrontationChapter Seven: “We’ve Arrived Where We Started and Know the Place for the First Time”: Women Reflecting on ‘Staying the Course’ or ‘Splitting Up’Part Three: Mapping the LandscapeChapter Eight: “New Rules, No Rules, Old Rules or Our Rules”: Women Designing MOREs with their PartnersChapter Nine: “The Problem Is That He’s A Man, Not That He’s Bisexual”: Women Discussing Masculinity, Misogyny, Privilege, and Power

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University and a founding member of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council Inc. (AGMC).

Pallotta-Chiarolli identifies a number of reasons that prompted her to undertake the research for this book: she was interested in understanding how relationships between women of various sexualities and bisexual men succeed or fail; how relations with other individuals and groups are negotiated; and what it is like to be a woman in a relationship with a bisexual man. From a broader perspective, she also wanted insight into what such dyads reveal about intimate relationships in the early part of the 21st century. The author's numerous goals have resulted in a thorough and, at times, thoroughly daunting book of over 500 pages (including references) that might be aptly titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men.' The information presented comes from a variety of theoretical paradigms as well as from the author's and other experts' research. The 'narratives, vignettes, and voices' provided by the snowball sample of 78 female respondents provide deep insight into their relationships. For many, the opportunity to speak openly about their non-traditional relationships was cathartic. For readers, the informants' candor is one of the book's main strengths. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• Part One: IntroductionChapter One: “Outside Belonging”: An Introduction to the Women, their Men, and the ResearchChapter Two: “Border Women and Their Border Men”: Some Theories, Definitions, and Debates Framing the ResearchChapter Three: “You know, the old Kinsey scale”: Women Talk about their Partners’ BisexualitiesChapter Four: “I Have A Sexuality Too”: Women Discussing their Own SexualitiesPart Two: The JourneysChapter Five: “Starting Out Knowing”: Negotiating the Beginning of the RelationshipChapter Six: “Changing Course Midstream”: From Closet to ConfrontationChapter Seven: “We’ve Arrived Where We Started and Know the Place for the First Time”: Women Reflecting on ‘Staying the Course’ or ‘Splitting Up’Part Three: Mapping the LandscapeChapter Eight: “New Rules, No Rules, Old Rules or Our Rules”: Women Designing MOREs with their PartnersChapter Nine: “The Problem Is That He’s A Man, Not That He’s Bisexual”: Women Discussing Masculinity, Misogyny, Privilege, and Power