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The Arc of Love : How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time
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ISBN: 022663406X 9780226634067 Year: 2019 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding "yes." The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev takes these experiences seriously, but he's also here to remind us of the benefits of profound love-an emotion that can only develop with time. In The Arc of Love, he provides an in-depth, philosophical account of the experiences that arise in early, intense love-sexual passion, novelty, change-as well as the benefits of cultivating long-term, profound love-stability, development, calmness. Ben-Ze'ev analyzes the core of emotions many experience in early love and the challenges they encounter, and he offers pointers for weathering these challenges. Deploying the rigorous analysis of a philosopher, but writing clearly and in an often humorous style with an eye to lived experience, he takes on topics like compromise, commitment, polyamory, choosing a partner, online dating, and when to say "I love you." Ultimately, Ben-Ze'ev assures us, while love is indeed best when fresh, if we tend to it carefully, it can become more delicious and nourishing even as time marches on.

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Love. --- Love --- Philosophy. --- emotion. --- flexibility. --- friendship. --- love. --- marriage. --- moderation. --- polyamory. --- sex. --- time.


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Elternschaft und Familie jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit
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ISBN: 3847415697 3847424319 9783847415695 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich

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Regenbogenfamilie, Inseminationsfamilie, Mehrelternfamilie: Diese Begriffe versuchen das Phänomen zu fassen, dass Elternschaft und Familie in vielfältigen Konstellationen verwirklicht werden. Sie stehen dabei im Spannungsfeld zwischen empirischer Vielfalt und gesellschaftlichen Norm- und Normalitätsvorstellungen. Die Beiträge des Sonderheftes erkunden die Familienformen lesbischer Zweielternfamilien, Trans* und Co-Elternschaft, nicht-monogamer Beziehungsnetzwerke sowie queere Beziehungsnetzwerke im Kontext von Flucht. Same-sex parenting, co-parenting, blended family: These terms try to capture the phenomenon that parenthood and family are realized in manifold constellations. They are caught between empirical diversity and social notions of norm and normality. The articles in this special issue explore the family forms of lesbian two-parent families, trans* and co-parenthood, non-monogamous relationship networks, and queer relationship networks in a refugee context. Ich kann dieses Buch allen empfehlen, die sich für die Themen "Regenbogenfamilie", "Inseminationsfamilie" oder "Mehrelterfamilie" interessieren. Es wird deutlich, wie sehr alle jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtigkeit gelebten Elternschaften und Familien sich an den herrschenden Rollenbildern und politischen Normen orientieren.AEP Informationen Heft 2/2021


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Understanding non-monogamies
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ISBN: 9780203869802 020386980X 9780415800556 0415800552 113519629X 1135196303 128297517X 9786612975172 9781135196257 9781135196295 9781135196301 9780415652964 0415652960 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers and the public in exploring various patterns of intimacy that involve open non-monogamy. This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners throughout the world to explore non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine the history and cultural basis of various forms of


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Homecoming Queens
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ISBN: 9463512098 9463512071 946351208X Year: 2017 Publisher: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers,

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“It’s hard for me to keep a straight face at the thought of living in a place called Queens with my husband and former homecoming queen wife,” Jackson thinks when his spouses inform him of their desire to move back to their hometown following the death of a parent. In Homecoming Queens, this decision sets in motion events that will dramatically transform the three spouses, their understanding of the past, and the town itself. As Jackson Garner leaves Tampa, he introduces us to Queens, a small town in Georgia situated between Atlanta and Augusta. In Queens, Jackson, Crystal and Lee encounter supportive regulars at the diner they take over from Crystal’s father as well as hostile locals who find bisexuality, polyamory, and other “alternative” lifestyles unsavory. They also confront the traumatic event that led Crystal and Lee to leave town after high school. Along the way, they face the history and ghosts of the town, the tension between an LGBT friendly pastor and some of his anti-LGBT congregants, the struggles of a kid seeking gender transition, and the ongoing battle between progress and tradition in the American south. Homecoming Queens can be read purely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading for courses in sexualities, gender, relationships, sociology, families, religion, the life course, the American south, identities, culture, intersectionality, and arts-based research. “Witty, action-packed, and full of surprises, Homecoming Queens will speak to anyone who has ever tried to go home again. Sumerau’s novel is an eye-opening read that sheds light on the dynamics of polyamory and queer presence in the Deep South. Secrets and mysteries intertwine with friendships new and old as the three spouses navigate Queens as sexually non-conforming adults.” – Katie Acosta, Ph.D., Georgia State University and author of Amigas y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family “Homecoming Queens educates you about being queer, trans, and poly in the South while also entertaining you with a captivating story from start to finish. Seriously, this story should be turned into a play or movie – or both!” – Eric Anthony Grollman, Ph.D., University of Richmond and Editor of Conditionallyaccepted.com “Homecoming Queens shows that while the past may sometimes reverberate into our present, it does not necessarily have to define our present or the futures we seek. This book will keep you guessing and wondering long after you’ve read it.” – Lorena Garcia, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago and author of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity J. E. Sumerau is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tampa. Their writing focuses on sexualities, gender, religion, and health in the interpersonal and historical experiences of sexual, gender, and religious minorities. They are also the author of two previous novels – Cigarettes & Wine and Essence. For more information, visit www.jsumerau.com.

Bienheureuse infidélité
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ISBN: 2226138625 9782226138620 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris: Albin Michel,

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Au XXIe siècle la fidélité n'est peut-être plus la vertu que l'on croit, source de bonheur et de stabilité, mais plutôt une peur de s'ouvrir aux autres, de s'autoriser le désir et l'affirmation de soi. Et l'infidélité, ou la polyfidélité, peut se concevoir non plus comme ce fauteur de trouble dans la paix conjugale mais comme une fidélité à soi-même, à concevoir celle de l'autre, et à être en accord avec soi. Paule Salomon explore, au travers de nombreux exemples puisés dans son expérience de thérapeute, ce continent noir et secret de l'intime et de la passion, du désir et de la jalousie. Elle tente de répondre aux questions cruciales que pose toute relation amoureuse : le fait de vivre en couple est-il synonyme d'exclusivité sexuelle, l'amour est-il monogame, tout engagement est-il synonyme d'aliénation ? Il en ressort une vision dynamique et inédite, loin des préjugés et de la culpabilité, mettant l'accent sur la liberté, l'attachement, le partage et la quête de soi.


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Indiscreet Fantasies : Iberian Queer Cinema
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ISBN: 168448250X 168448247X 1684482461 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bucknell University Press

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Pedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the world’s most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the region’s conservative religious and family values, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation. Indiscreet Fantasies is a unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films produced in the region over the past fifty years, each by a different director, from Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (The House That Screamed, 1969) to João Pedro Rodrigues’s O ornitólogo (The Ornithologist, 2016). Contributors examine how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical trauma—from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime—and explore how these films demonstrate a fluid understanding of sexuality, gender, and national identity. The result will give readers a new appreciation for the cultural diversity of Iberia and the richness of its thought-provoking queer cinema. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


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Tortilleras negotiating intimacy : love, friendship, and sex in queer Mexico City
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ISBN: 1978807562 1978807538 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex. Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy suggests that “new” intimate cartographies are emerging in Mexico City, ultimately redefining relationships, gender, and mexicanidad. Building on ethnographic data collected over the past decade, including forty-five in-depth interviews with women between the ages of twenty-two and sixty-five participating in LGBT spaces, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy shows how lesbian women (mainly cis, but some trans) negotiate friendship, same-sex marriage, polyamory, and sexual practices, reinventing love, eroticism, friendship, and ultimately the social organization of Latin American societies.

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