Willey Undoing Monogamy

The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7421-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

In Undoing Monogamy 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willey, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. Politics and Possibility: A Queer Feminist Introduction to Monogamy 1

1. Monogamy's Nature: Colonial Sexual Science and Its Naturecultural Fruits 25

2. Making the Monogamous Human: Mating, Measurement, and the New Science of Bonding 45

3. Making Our Poly Nature: Monogamy's Inversion and the Reproduction of Difference 73

4. Rethinking Monogamy's Nature: From the Truth of Non/Monogamy to a Dyke Ethics of "Antimonogamy" 95

5. Biopossibility: Molecular Monogamy and Audre Lorde's Erotic 121

Epilogue. Dreams of a Dyke Science 141

Notes 147

Bibliography 169

Index 191

Über Autor(innen)

Angela Willey is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.