Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities - Couverture souple

Schippers, Mimi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147988622X ISBN 13 : 9781479886227

Editeur : New York University Press, 2016

Synopsis

A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy. Schippers argues that compulsory monogamy promotes the monogamous couple as the only legitimate, natural, or desirable relationship form in ways that support and legitimize gender, race, and sexual inequalities.

Through an investigation of sexual interactions and relationship forms that include more than two people, from polyamory, to threesomes, to the complexity of the 'down-low, ' Schippers explores the queer, feminist, and anti-racist potential of non-dyadic sex and relationships. A serious look at the intersections of society and sexuality, Beyond Monogamy takes the reader on a compelling and accessible journey through compulsory monogamy, polyamory, and polyqueer sex and relationships.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mimi Schippers is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tulane University. She is author of Rockin' Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147988622X
• ISBN 13: 9781479886227
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible