Understanding non-monogamies / / edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.84/23
• Soggetto topico: Non-monogamous relationships; Bisexuality; Group sex
• Altri autori: BarkerMeg LangdridgeDarren
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding non-monogamies
• ISBN: 1-135-19629-X; 1-135-19630-3; 1-282-97517-X; 9786612975172; 0-203-86980-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812316403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 23.