The 'hard work' of polyamory: ethnographic accounts of intimacy and difference in the Netherlands.
The subversive potential of nonmonogamous relationships to provide nonpossessive and meaningful modes of bonding beyond heteropatriarchal monogamous relationships has been a concern of feminist scholarship and activism for more than a century. Focusing on polyamory in the Netherlands, this paper aim...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 31; no. 7; pp. 874 - 888 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2022
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