Mapping Intimacies

Relations, Exchanges, Affects

Buch | Hardcover

257 Seiten

2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9780230356023 (ISBN)

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This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life looks like.

Meg Barker, Open University, UK Rebecca Barnes, University of Leicester, UK Ann Cronin, Independent Researcher, UK Heidi Hoefinger, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Andrew King, University of Surrey, UK Petra Nordqvist, University of Manchester, UK Tracey Reynolds, London South Bank University, UK Anne Rudolph, Independent Researcher, UK Ana Cristina Santos , University of Coimbra, Portugal Evren Savc?, Northwestern University, US Megan Todd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Eleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds, UK Elisabetta Zontini, University of Nottingham, UK

Introduction; Tam Sanger and Yvette Taylor PART I: EMBODIED EXCHANGES: CHOICE, RISK AND VALUE 1. The Ties That Bind: Intimacy, Class, Sexuality; Yvette Taylor 2. Transnational Intimacies: Examples from Cambodia; Heidi Hoefinger 3. Lesbian Love and the Troublesome Sperm Donor: Intimacy, Normality and Morality in New Stories about Conception; Petra Nordqvist 4. Discourses of Female-to-Female STI Transmission: Of the Dent in Identity and Moments of Fixing; Anne Rudolph PART II: (DIS)ORDERING RELATIONS: VIOLENCE, VIOLATION, VOLITION 5. On Putting Down and Destroying: Affective Economies of a Women-Only Club in Istanbul; Evren Savci 6. Queering Care in Later Life: The Lived Experiences and Intimacies of Older Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults; Andrew King and Ann Cronin 7. 'She Expected her Women to be Pretty, Subservient, Dinner on the Table at Six': Problematising the Narrative of Egalitarianism in Lesbian Relationships through Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse; Rebecca Barnes 8. Blue Rinse Blues? Older Lesbians' Experiences of Domestic Violence; Megan Todd PART III: INTIMACIES: AFFECTIVE PROXIMITIES AND DISTANCES 9. Trans People's Partnerships: Rethinking the Limits of Relating; Tam Sanger 10. Queering Polyamory: From One Love to Many Loves and Back Again; Meg Barker, Jamie Heckert and Eleanor Wilkinson 11. Intimacy in Times of (De)normalization: Same-Sex Relational Recognition in Portugal; Ana Cristina Santos 12. 'Non-normative' Family Lives? Mapping Migrant Youth's Family and Intimate Relationships across National Divides and Spatial Distance; Tracey Ann Reynolds and Elisabetta Zontini.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.9.2013
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Zusatzinfo	XV, 257 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9780230356023 / 9780230356023
Zustand	Neuware