Understanding Non-Monogamies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barker, Meg; Langdridge, Darren

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners to explore the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine the history and cultural basis of non-monogamy, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, mono-normativity and issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135196295
• Artikelnr.: 42514013

Autorenporträt

Meg Barker is a lecturer in psychology at the Open University and a sex and relationship therapist. She and Darren Langdridge have published Safe, Sane, Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism with Palgrave and are now editing a new journal, Psychology & Sexuality, with Taylor & Francis. Meg's research publications focus on sexualities and relationships. Darren Langdridge is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University and a UKCP accredited existential psychotherapist. His research expertise is in sexualities and hermeneutic phenomenology. He has co-edited several books including Safe, Sane, Consensual, and has also authored a number of other books including Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method (Pearson Education). He is currently co-editing the new journal Psychology & Sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Situating Non-monogamies 1. Introduction Meg Barker and Darren
Langdridge 2. Deconstructing Monogamy: Boundaries, Identities, and
Fluidities across Relationships Katherine Frank and John DeLamater Section
2: Representing Non-monogamies 3. Non-monogamy and Fiction Esther Saxey 4.
'Science Says She's Gotta Have it': Reading for Racial Resonances in
Woman-Centered Poly Literature Angela Willey 5. Discursive Constructions of
Polyamory in Mono-normative Media Culture Ani Ritchie Section 3:
Distinguishing Non-monogamies 6. Relationship Innovation in Male Couples
Barry D. Adam 7. Swinging: Pushing the Boundaries of Monogamy? Dee McDonald
8. There Were Three in the Bed: Discursive Desire and the Sex Lives of
Swingers Shalanda Phillips 9. Geeks, Goddesses, and Green Eggs: Political
Mobilization and the Cultural Locus of the Polyamorous Community in the San
Francisco Bay Area Hadar Aviram 10. Social Sex: Young Women and Early
Sexual Relationships Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Colette D.R. Jones and Lucy Russell
Section 4: Intersecting Non-monogamies 11. Paradoxes in Gender Relations:
[Post] Feminism and Bisexual Polyamory Christian Klesse 12. Trans and
Non-Monogamies Christina Richards 13. 'Many Partners, Many Friends': Gay
and Bisexual Mormon Men's Views of Non-Monogamous Relationships José Miguel
Montenegro 14. Non-Monogamy in Queer BDSM Communities: Putting the Sex back
into Alternative Relationship Practices and Discourse Robin Bauer 15.
Asexual Relationships: What Does Asexuality Have to Do with Polyamory?
Kristin S. Scherrer 16. Disability And Polyamory: Exploring the Edges of
Inter-Dependence, Gender and Queer Issues in Non-Monogamous Relationships
Alessandra (Alex) Iantaffi Section 5: Extending Non-monogamies 17.
Strategies in Polyamorous Parenting Elisabeth Sheff 18. 'To Pass, Border or
Pollute': Polyfamilies Go to School Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli 19. Developing
a 'Responsible' Foster Care Praxis: Poly as a Framework for Examining Power
and Propriety in Family Contexts Damien W. Riggs Section 6: Counselling
Non-monogamies 20. The Power Mechanisms of Jealousy Pepper Mint 21. Making
Friends with Jealousy: Therapy with Polyamorous Clients Dossie Easton 22.
Promiscuities: Politics, Imagination, Spirituality and Hypocrisy Andrew
Samuels Section 7: Theorising Non-monogamies 23. Conditions of Freedom in
Practices of Non-monogamous Commitment Mark Finn 24. Sex, Space and
Discourse: Non/monogamy and Intimate Privilege in the Public Sphere Nathan
Rambukkana 25. What's Queer about Non-monogamy Now? Eleanor Wilkinson 26.
Love without Borders? Intimacy, Identity and the State of Compulsory
Monogamy Jamie Heckert