Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities (Intersections)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 147988622X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. Going beyond the individual focus common in much discussion of polyamory, Beyond Monogamy examines the potential collective impacts of non-monogamies and exposes how hetero-masculinity and mono-normativity are socially constructed and far from inevitable.”-Elisabeth Sheff,author of The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families“In this book, Mimi Schippers takes feminist scholars of sexuality to task for failing to theorize compulsory monogamy as a regime of normalcy that enforces gendered, raced, and classed inequalities. Exploring polyqueer sexual practices in
"Beautifully written and methodologically nuanced" according to Dana Berkowitz. Deeply provocative and theoretically groundbreaking, Beyond Monogamy is a must read for anyone interested in gender studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and cultural criticism. With sophisticated and sharp analyses, Schippers draws from cultural sources and her own experiences as a polyqueer subject to explore the queer, feminist, and anti-racist potential of polyqueer relationships and sexualities. I recently taught this book to my graduate seminar in Sociology of Gender & Sexuality and my student. "An eye-opening book" according to Ramazan. Claiming that heterosexual culture dictates monogamous couples, Mimi Schippers argues that people won't reach real sexual freedom until monogamy is ignored or turned away. For example, identifying himself as neither straight or gay, a man might be simultaneously in love with a woman and a man. If both of them agree with that, there is nothing wrong about it. On this point author's thesis is that monogamy is a block that hinders people from experiencing real satisfaction and it is no better than any other s. wifie"This is not the poly book you're looking for" according to wifie29. This is possibly one of the worst books I've ever read. I had high hopes, given the title and the description, but it failed to deliver on every front.It's fairly dense and academic, which makes it inaccessible to any lay person who might benefit from learning about how they might view their own relationships. However, that's not my biggest problem. I'm familiar with academia, so it wasn't an obstacle. It's the actual content.This book is one very long erasure of bisexuality. For someone claiming the "quee. 9 said This is not the poly book you're looking for. This is possibly one of the worst books I've ever read. I had high hopes, given the title and the description, but it failed to deliver on every front.It's fairly dense and academic, which makes it inaccessible to any lay person who might benefit from learning about how they might view their own relationships. However, that's not my biggest problem. I'm familiar with academia, so it wasn't an obstacle. It's the actual content.This book is one very long erasure of bisexuality. For someone claiming the "quee
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. A serious loo
. 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