Understanding Non Monogamies

Author : Meg Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113519629X
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Non-Monogamies written by Meg Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 non-monogamy, experiences of non-monogamous living, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, the discursive construction of mono-normativity as well as issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender. This volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the social sciences and anyone who is seeking greater insight into the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships.

Author : Meg Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135196303
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Non-Monogamies written by Meg Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Meg Barker
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Author : Michelle D. Vaughan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157144
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy written by Michelle D. Vaughan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive, intersectional examination of consensual non-monogamy, this handbook provides evidence-based research and practice across mental health disciplines on working with consensual non-monogamous (CNM) people and relationships. Leading experts in this emerging field provide counselor educators and practicing clinicians with the authoritative, essential information they need to serve a growing—yet frequently stigmatized—client population with affirmative, research-based, ethical care. Readers will learn basic information related to the development of their own unique relational information, acquire knowledge about CNM and CNM-focused communities, discern how identity, culture, and community impact intimacy and functioning, and take away practical recommendations, insights, and tools to promote CNM-affirming practice across settings, services and populations.

Author : Ryan Scoats
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367785499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Threesomes written by Ryan Scoats and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon more than 50 interviews and 200+ qualitative surveys this book offers a rich and in-depth analysis of contemporary threesome behaviours.

Author : Michelle Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429588739
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy written by Michelle Mueller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy examines the relationship between alternative American religions and the media representation of non-monogamies on reality-TV shows like Sister Wives, Seeking Sister Wife, and Polyamory: Married & Dating. The book is the first full-length study informed by fieldwork with Mormon polygamists and fieldwork with LGBTQ Neo-Pagan/Neo-Tantric polyamorists. The book tracks community members’ responses to the new media about them, their engagement with television and other media, and the likeness of representations to actual populations through fieldwork and interviews. The book highlights differences in socioeconomic privileges that shape Mormon polygamists’ lives and LGBTQ polyamorists’ lives, respectively. The polyamory movement receives support from liberal media. As reality TV has shifted the image of Mormon polygamy to one of liberal American middle-class culture, Mormon polygamists have gained in public favor. The media landscape of non-monogamy is mediated by, in addition to these alternative religious populations, the norms and practices of the reality-TV industry and by sociocultural and economic realities, including race and class. This book adds to the fields of media studies, critical race and gender studies, new religious movements, and queer studies.

Author : Meg Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415517621
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Rules written by Meg Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of great uncertainty about relationships. We search for "The One," but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. The reality of our relationships is not what we expected, and it becomes hard to balance it with all the other things that we want out of life. At the same time that marriage shows itself to be the one 'recession proof' industry; the rates of separation and break-up soar ever higher. Rewriting the Rules is a friendly guide through the complicated - and often contradictory - rules of love: the advice that is given about attraction and sex, monogamy and conflict, gender and commitment. It asks questions such as: which to choose from all the rules on offer? Do we stick to the old rules we learnt growing up, or do we try something new and risk being out on our own? This book considers how the rules are being 'rewritten' in various ways, for example the 'new monogamy', alternative commitment ceremonies, different ways of understanding gender, and new ideas for managing conflict and break-up where economics and child-care make complete separation a problem. In this way Rewriting the Rules gives the power to the reader to find the approach which fits their situation.

Author : Mimi Schippers
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479801593
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Monogamy written by Mimi Schippers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 multipartnered sex and relationships

Author : Justin L. Clardy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000850951
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why It's OK to Not Be Monogamous written by Justin L. Clardy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy. Yet, a "happily ever after" monogamy is assumed to be the ideal form of romantic love in many modern societies: a relationship that is morally ideal and will bring the most happiness to its two partners. In Why It’s OK to Not Be Monogamous, Justin L. Clardy deeply questions these assumptions. He rejects the claim that non-monogamy among honest, informed and consenting adults is morally impermissible. He shows instead how polyamorous relationships can actually be exemplars of moral virtue. The book discusses how social and political forces sustain and reward monogamous relationships. The book defines non-monogamy as a privative concept; a negation of monogamy. Looking at its prevalence in the United States, the book explains how common criticisms of non-monogamy come up short. Clardy argues, as some researchers have recently shown—monogamy relies on continually demonizing non-monogamy to sustain its moral status. Finally, the book concludes with a focus on equality, asking what justice for polyamorous individuals might look like.

Author : Nathan Rambukkana
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774828994
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fraught Intimacies written by Nathan Rambukkana and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adultery scandals involving politicians. Dating websites for married women and men. Raids of polygamous communities. Reality shows about polyamorists. It seems that non-monogamy is everywhere: in popular culture, in the news, and before the courts. In Fraught Intimacies, Nathan Rambukkana examines how polygamy, adultery, and polyamory are represented in the public sphere and the effect this is having on intimate relationships and aspects of contemporary Western society. As this book demonstrates, although monogamy is considered and presented as the norm in Western society, many kinds of sexual and romantic relationships exist within its borders. Rambukkana’s intricate analysis reveals how some forms of non-monogamy are tacitly accepted, even glamourized, while others are vilified and reviled. By questioning what this says about intimacy, power, and privilege, this book offers an innovative framework for understanding the status of non-monogamy in Western society.