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Book SynopsisDrawing on media, popular culture, and recent court cases, this book examines how various forms of non-monogamy (polygamy, adultery, and polyamory) are represented in the public sphere, how some forms of non-monogamy are tolerated and others vilified, and the effects such privileging is having on intimate relationships and other aspects of contemporary Western society.
Trade ReviewUndoing Monogamy and
Fraught Intimacies both attempt ambitious theoretical interventions into the study of intimacy, and are indispensable resources to those already engaged in the study of non/monogamies. Through the diversity of their archives and the breadth of their thoroughly intersectional critiques, Rambukkana and Willey demonstrate that the contemporary study of non/monogamy does not, and cannot, proceed in isolation. In their discussions of non/monogamy as it appears in colonialism, border control, life sciences, comic strips and the law, these two very different books demonstrate the diverse pleasures of intellectual promiscuity. -- Jessica Kean, University of Sydney * Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 31 No. 90, March 2017 *
Rambukkana’s study covers wide ground and is unusual for its relational and inter-textual analysis. His discussion not only highlights differences, but much common discursive ground across which different styles of intimacy are constructed. Rambukkana explores communalities, even if they may be uncomfortable and brush against the grain of cherished taken-for-granted wisdoms. Truly impressive is Rambukkana’s consistency in working along intersectional lines of inquiry, thereby enriching polyamory scholarship with an approach that is attentive to race, class and gender perspectives.
-- C. Klesse * Sexualities *
Table of ContentsPreface: Chasing Non/Monogamy
Introduction: Non/Monogamy and Intimacy in the Public Sphere
1 The Space of (Intimate) Privilege
2 The Adultery Industry: Autonomous Space, Heteronormativity, and Neoliberal Cheating
3 Mapping Polygamy: Discourse, Reterritorialization, and Plural Marriage
4 The Fraught Promise of Polyamory: New Intimate Ethics or Heterotopian Enclave?
Conclusion: Non-Monogamies and the Space of Discourse
Appendix: Canada’s Criminal Code (C.26) Statutes on Bigamy and Polygamy
Notes
References
Index
