Undoing monogamy : the politics of science and the possibilities of biology / Angela Willey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willey, Angela, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-monogamous relationships.

Monogamous relationships.

Sexual minorities--Sexual behavior.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual ethics.

Sexual practices.

Sexuality.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging. She approaches the politics and materiality of monogamy as intertwined with one another such that disciplinary ways of knowing themselves become an object of critical inquiry. Refusing to answer the naturalization of monogamy with a naturalization of nonmonogamy, Willey demands a critical reorientation toward the monogamy question in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The book examines colonial sexual science, monogamous voles, polyamory, and the work of Alison Bechdel and Audre Lorde to show how challenging the lens through which human nature is seen as monogamous or nonmonogamous forces us to reconsider our investments in coupling and in disciplinary notions of biological bodies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Politics and possibility : a queer feminist introduction to monogamy

Monogamy's nature : colonial sexual science and its naturecultural fruits

Making the monogamous human : mating, measurement, and the new science of bonding

Making our poly nature : monogamy's inversion and the reproduction of difference

Rethinking monogamy's nature : from the truth of non/monogamy to a dyke ethics of "antimonogamy"

Biopossibility : molecular monogamy and Audre Lorde's erotic

Dreams of a dyke science.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index.

ISBN:

9780822361404

082236140X

9780822361596

0822361590

OCLC:

915120389