Mimi Schippers

Polyamory, Monogamy, and American Dreams (eBook, ePUB)

The Stories We Tell about Poly Lives and the Cultural Production of Inequality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces "the poly gaze" as a cultural tool to examine how representations of polyamory and poly lives reflect or challenge cultural hegemonies of race, class, gender, and nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351717113
• Artikelnr.: 57969308

Autorenporträt

Mimi Schippers received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tulane University. Her research focuses on masculinities, femininities, and the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality in everyday interactions, relationships, and subcultures. She is author of Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities and Rockin' Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Mononormative Narrative
Poly Narrative
and Social Inequality
CHAPTER TWO The Polygamous Other and American Identity
CHAPTER THREE Casual Sex On Campus: The Mononormative Narratives Told About Sexual Relationships in Heterosexual Hookup Culture
CHAPTER FOUR Historical Biography and The Erasure of Poly Pasts Cultures
CHAPTER FIVE Poly-Positive Narratives and American Sexual Exceptionalism
CHAPTER SIX The (Poly) Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Poly Kinship as a Design for Living Queerly
CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion: From Poly Reading to Poly Living Affect