Expanding the Rainbow

Exploring the Relationships of Bi+, Polyamorous, Kinky, Ace, Intersex, and Trans People
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41409-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Teaching Gender

Expanding the Rainbow is the first comprehensive collection of research on the relationships of people who identify as bi+, poly, kinky, asexual, intersex, and/or trans that is written to be accessible to an undergraduate audience. The volume highlights a diverse range of identities, relationship structures, and understandings of bodies, sexualities, and interpersonal relationships. Contributions to the volume include original empirical research, personal narratives and reflections, and theoretical pieces that center the experiences of members of these communities, as well as teaching resources. Collectively, the chapters present a diverse, nuanced, and empirically rich picture of the variety of relationships and identities that individuals are creating in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simula, Brandy L

Sumerau, J E

Miller, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

R. F. Plante
Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Brandy L. Simula, Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau

Part 1: Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships

1. “By Definition They’re Not the Same Thing”: Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals

Ashley Green

2. You Cared before You Knew: Navigating Bi+ Familial Relationships

Nik Lampe

3. Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process

Lain A. B. Mathers

4. Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives

Brittany M. Harder

Part 2: Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships

5. Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World

Mimi Schippers

6. Monogamy vs. Polyamory: Negotiating Gender Hierarchy

Michelle Wolkomir

7. Margins of Identity: Queer Polyamorous Women’s Navigation of Identity

Krista L. Benson

8. Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory

Emily Pain

9. Relational Fluidity: Somewhere between Polyamory and Monogamy (Personal Reflection)

J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra “Xan” C. H. Nowakowski

Part 3: Kinky/BDSM Relationships

10. BDSM Relationships

Robin Bauer

11. Kink Work Online: The Diffuse Lives of Erotic Webcam Workers and Their Clients

Angela Jones

12. BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Identity and Disclosure Audience and Response

Katherine Martinez

13. Finding Yourself in the Dark: On Submission, Healing, and Acceptance (Personal Reflection)

Mar Middlebrooks

Part 4: Asexual Relationships

14. Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality

Tiina Vares

15. At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality

Daniel Copulsky

16. Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation

C. J. Chasin

17. Queering the Nuclear Family: Navigating Familial Living as an Asexual (Personal Reflection)

Katie Linder

Part 5: Intersex Relationships

18. Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues

Cary Gabriel Costello

19. Not Going to the Chapel? Intersex Youth and an Exploration of Marriage Desires and Expectations

Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez

20. Shifting Medical Paradigms: The Evolution of Relationships between Intersex Individuals and Doctors

Sarah S. Topp

Part 6: Transgender Relationships

21. Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative

Carey Jean Sojka

22. “I Try Not to Push It Too Far”: Trans/Nonbinary Individuals Negotiating Race and Gender in Intimate Relationships

alithia zamantakis

23. Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? Tension between Binary and Non-Binary Trans People

stef m. shuster

24. Research on Gender Identity & Youth: Incorporating Intersectionality

Griffin Lacy

25. Symbiotic Love: On Dating, Sex, and Interpersonal Relationships between Transgender People (Personal Reflection)

Shalen Lowell

For Use in the Classroom: Notes on Teaching outside the Rainbow

Andrea Miller

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Brandy L. Simula, PhD (she/her/hers), is a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow at Emory University. She has published on gender, sexuality, and identity in Sexualities, the Journal of Homosexuality, the Journal of Bisexuality, Sociology Compass, and a number of edited volumes.

J.E. Sumerau, PhD (she/they), is an assistant professor and the director of applied sociology at the University of Tampa. They are the author of over 70 articles, chapters, and monographs at the intersection of sexualities, gender, religion, and health related to societal patterns of violence and inequality.

Andrea Miller, PhD (she/her/hers), is a Full Adjunct Professor of Sociology and a Fellow for the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Webster University. She has published in the area of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her most recent article is “The Mis-education of Lady Gaga: Confronting Essentialist Claims in the Sex and Gender Classroom” which she considers a primer for teaching the social construction of sexualities.