04865oam 2200733I 450 991045702320332120200520144314.01-135-19629-X1-135-19630-31-282-97517-X97866129751720-203-86980-X10.4324/9780203869802 (CKB)2550000000002172(EBL)465370(OCoLC)574760499(SSID)ssj0000344061(PQKBManifestationID)11263666(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344061(PQKBWorkID)10292030(PQKB)10648802(MiAaPQ)EBC465370(Au-PeEL)EBL465370(CaPaEBR)ebr10361709(CaONFJC)MIL297517(OCoLC)860759337 (EXLCZ)99255000000000217220180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnderstanding non-monogamies /edited by Meg Barker and Darren LangdridgeNew York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (325 p.)Routledge research in gender and society ;23Description based upon print version of record.0-415-65296-0 0-415-80055-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Relationships14 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 ContextsPart 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; IndexMost 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 ofRoutledge research in gender and society ;23.Non-monogamous relationshipsBisexualityGroup sexElectronic books.Non-monogamous relationships.Bisexuality.Group sex.306.84/23Barker Meg937186Langdridge Darren953776MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457023203321Understanding non-monogamies2156505UNINA