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Book SynopsisThis anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject of feminist and legal study and hone in specifically on polyamory, polygamy, and Platonic affinities, considering the sexual and non-sexual ties of affect and affinity that link a diverse range of contemporary friendships that exist cross-culturally. This highly original book teases out commonalities between experiences of affinity that are enmeshed with the differences between social, national, legal, and cultural frameworks that surround these relationships of affinity and affect, and troubles forms of government and legal regulation that prohibit or fail to recognize the consensual interdependence connecting diverse forms of human friendship.
Trade Review"This edited collection provides a rare and truly interdisciplinary study of friendship as a theoretical concept. The editors traverse law, popular culture and academia as the contributors explore compassionate concepts that deserve more scholarly attention. The volume is a refreshing journey that helps provide a much needed optimistic frame in an age of cynicism and propaganda.” -- Richard Jochelson, Associate Professor, Co-Editor in Chief, Criminal Law Edition of Manitoba Law Journal & Robsoncrim.com
Table of Contents• Sally Param: “Responding and adjusting: Exploring the friendship dilemma through the qualitative lens of educated Indian women in Malaysia; • Rebecca Bromwich, “ Blurred Lines and Spaces for Renewal: Love, Family and Friendship - Reconsidering Polygamy Under the Law in Canada”.; • Josephine L. Savarese, “Research Project Reality Show”; • Stephens, “Friendships in the Japanese Language: Intersubjectivity Through Mothering”; • Ferguson and King, “The Third Shift Writers Collaborative’s Ibeji Model: Friendship Bonds as Grist and Soul’s Salvation in the Scholarly Writing Process”; • Elieen Doherty and Kari Wilson, “Women `Playing House’: An In-Depth Examination of Adult Female Friendship on Television”; • Rebecca Bromwich and Thomas Harrison, “Protecting the Public in the Twilight of Trials: Ways Forward Towards Access to Justice in Relational Conflict via the Regulation of Mediator.”; • Myrina Bromwich, “Friendship”; • Jens Urban, “ Polygamy and Human Rights in France and In Canada”
