Polyamory, Monogamy, and American Dreams: The Stories We Tell about Poly Lives and the Cultural Production of Inequality

by Mimi Schippers

Book Overview

This book introduces "the poly gaze" as a cultural tool to examine how representations of polyamory and poly lives reflect or challenge cultural hegemonies of race, class, gender, and nation.

What role does monogamy play in American Identity, the American dream, and U.S. exceptionalism? How do the stories we tell about intimate relationships do cultural and ideological work to maintain and legitimize social inequalities along the lines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138895032
• ISBN13: 9781138895034
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"