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Love's refraction : jealousy and compersion in queer women's polyamourous relationships
- Author
- Deri, Jillian, 1976-
- Title
- Love's refraction : jealousy and compersion in queer women's polyamourous relationships / Jillian Deri.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2015.
- Description
- viii, 155 pages ; 23 cm
- Summary
- Popular wisdom might suggest that jealousy is an inevitable outcome of non-monogamous relationships. In "Love's Refraction," Jillian Deri explores the distinctive question of how and why polyamorists - people who practise consensual non-monogamy - manage jealousy. Her focus is on the polyamorist concet of "compersion" - taking pleasure in a lover's other romantic and sexual encounters. By discussing the experiences of queer, lesbian, and bisexual polyamorous women, Deri highlights the social and structural context that surround jealousy.Her analysis, making use of the sociology of emotion and feminist intersectionality theory, shows how polyamory challenges traditional emotional and sexual norms.
- Subject headings
- Non-monogamous relationships. Lesbians
- Kinsey subjects
- Polyamory.
- ISBN
- 9781442628694