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Author:   Angela Willey
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780822361404

ISBN 10:   082236140
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   13 May 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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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 * Undoing Monogamy is an important contribution to feminist and queer studies of science, to feminist materialisms, and to academic studies of non/monogamy.... Undoing Monogamy 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 * Angela Willey's Undoing Monogamy explores the rich terrain of speculation over the meaning and significance of monogamy for scientists, for advocates of polyamory, and for feminists. Covering a substantial range of topics, Undoing Monogamy is a highly generative book for anyone interested in feminist science studies, cultural studies of sexuality, and especially new materialism. -- Jennifer Terry, author of * An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society * Reaching far into feminist science studies, new materialism, and feminist of color critique, Angela Willey refuses to privilege either biology or the social. Her deepest ethic is to recognize the animacy of both humans and nonhumans, of both culture and materiality, and the ways in which they make one another. An outstanding book, Undoing Monogamy opens up important questions for defining feminist science and its promise for democratizing science and society. -- Kim TallBear, author of * Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science *

Angela Willey's Undoing Monogamy explores the rich terrain of speculation over the meaning and significance of monogamy for scientists, for advocates of polyamory, and for feminists. Covering a substantial range of topics, Undoing Monogamy is a highly generative book for anyone interested in feminist science studies, cultural studies of sexuality, and especially new materialism. --Jennifer Terry, author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society

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

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