Understanding non-monogamies /
Understanding non-monogamies /
edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge.
- x, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 23 .
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 23. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Deconstructing monogamy: boundaries, identities, and fluidities across relationships / Non-monogamy and fiction / 'Science says she's gotta have it': reading for racial resonances in woman-centered poly literature / Discursive constructions of polyamory in mono-normative media culture / Relationship innovation in male couples / Swinging: pushing the boundaries of monogamy? / There were three in the bed: discursive desire and the sex lives of swingers / Geeks, goddesses, and green eggs: political mobilization and the cultural locus of the polyamorous community in the San Francisco Bay area / Social sex: young women and early sexual relationships / Paradoxes in gender relations: [post] feminism and bisexual polyamory / Trans and non-monogamies / 'Many partners, many friends': gay and bisexual Mormon men's views of non-monogamous relationships / Non-monogamy in queer BDSM communities: putting the sex back into alternative relationship practices and discourse / Asexual relationships: what does asexuality have to do with polyamory? / Disability and polyamory: exploring the edges of inter-dependence, gender and queer issues in non-monogamous relationships / Strategies in polyamorous parenting / 'To pass, border or pollute': polyfamilies go to school / Developing a 'responsible' foster care praxis: poly as a framework for examining power and propriety in family contexts / The power mechanisms of jealousy / Making friends with jealousy: therapy with polyamorous clients / Promiscuities: politics, imagination, spirituality and hypocrisy / Conditions of freedom in practices of non-monogamous commitment / Sex, space and discourse: non/monogamy and intimate privilege in the public sphere / What's queer about non-monogamy now? / Love without borders? Intimacy, identity and the state of compulsory monogamy / Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge -- Katherine Frank and John DeLamater -- Esther Saxey -- Angela Willey -- Ani Ritchie -- Barry D. Adam -- Dee McDonald -- Shalanda Phillips -- Hadar Aviram -- Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Colette D.R. Jones and Lucy Russell -- Christian Klesse -- Christina Richards -- José Miguel Montenegro -- Robin Bauer -- Kristin S. Scherrer -- Alessandra (Alex) Iantaffi -- Elisabeth Sheff -- Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli -- Damien W. Riggs -- Pepper Mint -- Dossie Easton -- Andrew Samuels -- Mark Finn -- Nathan Rambukkana -- Eleanor Wilkinson -- Jamie Heckert.
"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 non-monogamy, experiences of non-monogamous living, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, the discursive construction of mono-normativity as well as issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender. This volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the social sciences and anyone who is seeking greater insight into the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships."--Publisher's website.
0415800552 9780415800556
2009012268
Non-monogamous relationships
Bisexuality.
Group sex
HQ980 / .U63 2010
306.8423
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Deconstructing monogamy: boundaries, identities, and fluidities across relationships / Non-monogamy and fiction / 'Science says she's gotta have it': reading for racial resonances in woman-centered poly literature / Discursive constructions of polyamory in mono-normative media culture / Relationship innovation in male couples / Swinging: pushing the boundaries of monogamy? / There were three in the bed: discursive desire and the sex lives of swingers / Geeks, goddesses, and green eggs: political mobilization and the cultural locus of the polyamorous community in the San Francisco Bay area / Social sex: young women and early sexual relationships / Paradoxes in gender relations: [post] feminism and bisexual polyamory / Trans and non-monogamies / 'Many partners, many friends': gay and bisexual Mormon men's views of non-monogamous relationships / Non-monogamy in queer BDSM communities: putting the sex back into alternative relationship practices and discourse / Asexual relationships: what does asexuality have to do with polyamory? / Disability and polyamory: exploring the edges of inter-dependence, gender and queer issues in non-monogamous relationships / Strategies in polyamorous parenting / 'To pass, border or pollute': polyfamilies go to school / Developing a 'responsible' foster care praxis: poly as a framework for examining power and propriety in family contexts / The power mechanisms of jealousy / Making friends with jealousy: therapy with polyamorous clients / Promiscuities: politics, imagination, spirituality and hypocrisy / Conditions of freedom in practices of non-monogamous commitment / Sex, space and discourse: non/monogamy and intimate privilege in the public sphere / What's queer about non-monogamy now? / Love without borders? Intimacy, identity and the state of compulsory monogamy / Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge -- Katherine Frank and John DeLamater -- Esther Saxey -- Angela Willey -- Ani Ritchie -- Barry D. Adam -- Dee McDonald -- Shalanda Phillips -- Hadar Aviram -- Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Colette D.R. Jones and Lucy Russell -- Christian Klesse -- Christina Richards -- José Miguel Montenegro -- Robin Bauer -- Kristin S. Scherrer -- Alessandra (Alex) Iantaffi -- Elisabeth Sheff -- Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli -- Damien W. Riggs -- Pepper Mint -- Dossie Easton -- Andrew Samuels -- Mark Finn -- Nathan Rambukkana -- Eleanor Wilkinson -- Jamie Heckert.
"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 non-monogamy, experiences of non-monogamous living, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, the discursive construction of mono-normativity as well as issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender. This volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the social sciences and anyone who is seeking greater insight into the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships."--Publisher's website.
0415800552 9780415800556
2009012268
Non-monogamous relationships
Bisexuality.
Group sex
HQ980 / .U63 2010
306.8423