LEADER 04832oam 2200721I 450 001 9910780920903321 005 20230725044852.0 010 $a1-135-19629-X 010 $a1-135-19630-3 010 $a1-282-97517-X 010 $a9786612975172 010 $a0-203-86980-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203869802 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002172 035 $a(EBL)465370 035 $a(OCoLC)574760499 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344061 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11263666 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344061 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10292030 035 $a(PQKB)10648802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC465370 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL465370 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10361709 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL297517 035 $a(OCoLC)860759337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002172 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aUnderstanding non-monogamies /$fedited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in gender and society ;$v23 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-65296-0 311 $a0-415-80055-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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? 327 $a8 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 327 $a14 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 327 $aPart 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 330 $aMost social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers and the public in exploring various patterns of intimacy that involve open non-monogamy. This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners throughout the world to explore non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine the history and cultural basis of various forms of 410 0$aRoutledge research in gender and society ;$v23. 606 $aNon-monogamous relationships 606 $aBisexuality 606 $aGroup sex 615 0$aNon-monogamous relationships. 615 0$aBisexuality. 615 0$aGroup sex. 676 $a306.84/23 701 $aBarker$b Meg$01555474 701 $aLangdridge$b Darren$0953776 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780920903321 996 $aUnderstanding non-monogamies$93836855 997 $aUNINA