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:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers and the public in exploring various patterns of intimacy that involve open non-monogamy. This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners throughout the world to explore non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine the history and cultural basis of various forms of

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Part I Situating Non-Monogamies; 1 Introduction; 2 Deconstructing Monogamy: Boundaries, Identities, and Fluidities across Relationships; Part II Representing Non-Monogamies; 3 Non-Monogamy and Fiction; 4 'Science Says She's Gotta Have It': Reading for Racial Resonances in Woman-Centered Poly Literature; 5 Discursive Constructions of Polyamory in Mono-Normative Media Culture; Part III Distinguishing Non-Monogamies; 6 Relationship Innovation in Male Couples; 7 Swinging: Pushing the Boundaries of Monogamy?

8 There Were Three in the Bed: Discursive Desire and the Sex Lives of Swingers9 Geeks, Goddesses, and Green Eggs: Political Mobilization and the Cultural Locus of the Polyamorous Community in the San Francisco Bay Area; 10 Social Sex: Young Women and Early Sexual Relationships; Part IV Intersecting Non-Monogamies; 11 Paradoxes in Gender Relations: [Post] Feminism and Bisexual Polyamory; 12 Trans and Non-Monogamies; 13 'Many Partners, Many Friends': Gay and Bisexual Mormon Men's Views of Non-Monogamous Relationships

14 Non-Monogamy in Queer BDSM Communities: Putting the Sex Back into Alternative Relationship Practices and Discourse15 Asexual Relationships: What Does Asexuality Have to Do with Polyamory?; 16 Disability and Polyamory: Exploring the Edges of Inter-Dependence, Gender and Queer Issues in Non-Monogamous Relationships; Part V Extending Non-Monogamies; 17 Strategies in Polyamorous Parenting; 18 'To Pass, Border or Pollute': Polyfamilies Go to School; 19 Developing a 'Responsible' Foster Care Praxis: Poly as a Framework for Examining Power and Propriety in Family Contexts

Part IV Counseling Non-Monogamies20 The Power Mechanisms of Jealousy; 21 Making Friends with Jealousy: Therapy with Polyamorous Clients; 22 Promiscuities: Politics, Imagination, Spirituality and Hypocrisy; Part VII Theorizing Non-Monogamies; 23 Conditions of Freedom in Practices of Non-Monogamous Commitment; 24 Sex, Space and Discourse: Non/Monogamy and Intimate Privilege in the Public Sphere; 25 What's Queer about Non-Monogamy Now?; 26 Love without Borders?: Intimacy, Identity and the State of Compulsory Monogamy; References; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-19629-X

1-135-19630-3

1-282-97517-X

9786612975172

0-203-86980-X

9780203869802

OCLC:

574760499