Understanding non-monogamies
by Barker, Meg Langdridge, Darren
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 empiric…
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- Full title :Understanding non-monogamies / edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge.
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.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 312 pages :) : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415800556, 0415800552, 1135196303, 9781135196301, 9786612975172, 6612975172
- oclc:on1107788606
- LC Classification:HQ980
- Dewey Decimal:306.84/23
Table 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 Discourse1…
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