Willey Angela Willey

Undoing Monogamy (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology

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Produktbeschreibung

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging. She approaches the politics and materiality of monogamy as intertwined with one another such that disciplinary ways of knowing themselves become an object of critical inquiry. Refusing to answer the naturalization of monogamy with a naturalization of nonmonogamy, Willey demands a critical reorientation toward the monogamy question in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The book examines colonial sexual science, monogamous voles, polyamory, and the work of Alison Bechdel and Audre Lorde to show how challenging the lens through which human nature is seen as monogamous or nonmonogamous forces us to reconsider our investments in coupling and in disciplinary notions of biological bodies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374213
• Artikelnr.: 54788148

Autorenporträt

Angela Willey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Politics and Possibility: A Queer Feminist Introduction to
Monogamy  1
1. Monogamy's Nature: Colonial Sexual Science and Its Naturecultural
Fruits  25
2. Making the Monogamous Human: Mating, Measurement, and the New Science of
Bonding  45
3. Making Our Poly Nature: Monogamy's Inversion and the Reproduction of
Difference  73
4. Rethinking Monogamy's Nature: From the Truth of Non/Monogamy to a Dyke
Ethics of "Antimonogamy"  95
5. Biopossibility: Molecular Monogamy and Audre Lorde's Erotic  121
Epilogue. Dreams of a Dyke Science  141
Notes  147
Bibliography  169
Index  191