Understanding non-monogamies / edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Meg-John, 1974-

Langdridge, Darren.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and society ; 23.

Routledge research in gender and society ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-monogamous relationships.

Bisexuality.

Group sex.

Physical Description:

x, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

Part I Situating Non-Monogamies

1 Introduction / Meg Barker, Darren Langdridge 3

2 Deconstructing Monogamy: Boundaries, Identities, and Fluidities across Relationships / Katherine Frank, John DeLamater 9

Part II Representing Non-Monogamies

3 Non-Monogamy and Fiction / Esther Saxey 23

4 'Science Says She's Gotta Have It': Reading for Racial Resonances in Woman-Centered Poly Literature / Angela Willey 34

5 Discursive Constructions of Polyamory in Mono-Normative Media Culture / Ani Ritchie 46

Part III Distinguishing Non-Monogamies

6 Relationship Innovation in Male Couples / Barry D. Adam 55

7 Swinging: Pushing the Boundaries of Monogamy? / Dee McDonald 70

8 There Were Three in the Bed: Discursive Desire and the Sex Lives of Swingers / Shalanda Phillips 82

9 Geeks, Goddesses, and Green Eggs: Political Mobilization and the Cultural Locus of the Polyamorous Community in the San Francisco Bay Area / Hadar Aviram 87

10 Social Sex: Young Women and Early Sexual Relationships / Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Colette D.R. Jones, Lucy Russell 94

Part IV Intersecting Non-Monogamies

11 Paradoxes in Gender Relations: [Post] Feminism and Bisexual Polyamory / Christian Klesse 109

12 Trans and Non-Monogamies / Christina Richards 121

13 'Many Partners, Many Friends': Gay and Bisexual Mormon Men's Views of Non-Monogamous Relationships / Jos ̌Miguel Montenegro 134

14 Non-Monogamy in Queer BDSM Communities: Putting the Sex Back into Alternative Relationship Practices and Discourse / Robin Bauer 142

15 Asexual Relationships: What Does Asexuality Have to Do with Polyamory? / Kristin S. Scherrer 154

16 Disability And Polyamory: Exploring the Edges of Inter-Dependence, Gender and Queer Issues in Non-Monogamous Relationships / Alessandra (ALEX) Iantaffi 160

Part V Extending Non-Monogamies

17 Strategies in Polyamorous Parenting / Elisabeth Sheff 169

18 'To Pass, Border or Pollute': Polyfamilies Go to School / Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli 182

19 Developing a 'Responsible' Foster Care Praxis: Poly as a Framework for Examining Power and Propriety in Family Contexts / Damien W. Riggs 188

Part VI Counseling Non-Monogamies

20 The Power Mechanisms of Jealousy / Pepper Mint 201

21 Making Friends with Jealousy: Therapy with Polyamorous Clients / Dossie Easton 207

22 Promiscuities: Politics, Imagination, Spirituality and Hypocrisy / Andrew Samuels 212

Part VII Theorizing Non-Monogamies

23 Conditions of Freedom in Practices of Non-Monogamous Commitment / Mark Finn 225

24 Sex, Space and Discourse: Non/Monogamy and Intimate Privilege in the Public Sphere / Nathan Rambukkana 237

25 What's Queer about Non-Monogamy Now? / Eleanor Wilkinson 243

26 Love without Borders? Intimacy, Identity and the State of Compulsory Monogamy / Jamie Heckert 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415800556

0415800552

OCLC:

311758680