{"product_id":"undoing-monogamy-9780822361596","title":"Undoing Monogamy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUndoing Monogamy\u003c\/i\u003e Angela Willey analyzes the contemporary science of monogamy, demanding a critical reorientation toward the understanding of monogamy and non-monogamy in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUndoing Monogamy\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to feminist and queer studies of science, to feminist materialisms, and to academic studies of non\/monogamy.... \u003ci\u003eUndoing Monogamy\u003c\/i\u003e provides us with an example of how to approach science differently in ways that are grounded more in the lives and needs of a wider variety of diverse humans and nonhumans.\" -- Kim TallBear * Hypatia *\u003cbr\u003e\"The value of Undoing Monogamy to scholars of non\/monogamy is unquestionable. The careful, historical attention to the way that non\/monogamy has been implicated in colonial logics and ongoing projects of racism is a vital contribution to the field.\" -- Jessica Kean * Australian Feminist Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eUndoing Monogamy\u003c\/i\u003e] has something to teach everyone: every reader will find something new and unfamiliar in its pages.\" -- Clare Chambers * International Feminist Journal of Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\"The thoroughly interdisciplinary methodology, alongside ethical and joyful visions of a ‘dyke science,’ give us all a new way forward, where we do not make easy scapegoats of disciplines, but interrogate and integrate our various disciplines through our deeply \u003ci\u003enaturecultural \u003c\/i\u003eworlds.\" -- Banu Subramaniam * Science, Technology and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"A richly interdisciplinary book . . . that demonstrates a facility and ease with multiple approaches in feminist science studies. . . . Willey’s really substantive contribution to queer theory and sexuality studies, which is that the idea of monogamy and nonmonogamy as sexual practices—as sex itself—has been obscuring something of value: the expansive social worlds that might emerge if both monogamy and its others were critiqued.\" -- Kyla Tompkins * American Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUndoing Monogamy\u003c\/i\u003e makes a key theoretical intervention: clarifying ow new materialist approaches can build on, rather than depart from (or at worst, ignore), the insights of feminist science studies. Angela Willey makes a necessary and pointed contribution. . . . This is a scholar to watch for self-reflexive, multidisciplinary, and intersectional feminist research that challenges us all to conceive of critique and world-building as compatible projects.\" -- Kyla Schuller * Catalyst *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Politics and Possibility: A Queer Feminist Introduction to Monogamy  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Monogamy's Nature: Colonial Sexual Science and Its Naturecultural Fruits  25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Making the Monogamous Human: Mating, Measurement, and the New Science of Bonding  45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Our Poly Nature: Monogamy's Inversion and the Reproduction of Difference  73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rethinking Monogamy's Nature: From the Truth of Non\/Monogamy to a Dyke Ethics of \"Antimonogamy\"  95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Biopossibility: Molecular Monogamy and Audre Lorde's Erotic  121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Dreams of a Dyke Science  141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  191","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406096474455,"sku":"9780822361596","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822361596.jpg?v=1730494513","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/undoing-monogamy-9780822361596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}