Look Both Ways

A necessary read for those looking to expand their understanding of both bisexuality and the contributions of Third Wave feminism.—Rebecca Walker Bookforum Revealing smart titillating . . . Look Both Ways [cuts] straight to the heart of many young women''s fraught relationship to both feminism and their own femininity. —Jessica Clark In These TimesBaumgardner''s voice remains as compelling as ever not only because she writes with the candor of your closest friend but because she herself appears to be learning and questioning along with the reader. —Fiorella Valdesolo Nylon Baumgardner is generally thoughtful and honest with a refreshing sense of humor about herself and her politics. . . . Baumgardner''s prose at its best is warm unpretentious and funny . . . And as a memoirist she is impressively willing to make herself vulnerable. . . . Her arguments for sexual complexity and openness are compelling as are her claims that bisexual experiences can supply a kind of stereoscopic vision.— Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow Salon