Best of 2017: Mimi Schippers on Polyamory and Polyqueer Sexualities Office Hours
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In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers [1] about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities [2]. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards being in a relationship with only one other person at a time. Schippers argues that this compulsory disposition towards monogamy limits the ways that we can view relationships, and reproduces various kinds of inequalities.
Download Office Hours #131 [3]
[1] http://www2.tulane.edu/liberal-arts/sociology/schipper-profile.cfm
[2] https://nyupress.org/books/9781479886227/
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH131_Schippers.mp3
In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers [1] about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities [2]. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards being in a relationship with only one other person at a time. Schippers argues that this compulsory disposition towards monogamy limits the ways that we can view relationships, and reproduces various kinds of inequalities.
Download Office Hours #131 [3]
[1] http://www2.tulane.edu/liberal-arts/sociology/schipper-profile.cfm
[2] https://nyupress.org/books/9781479886227/
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH131_Schippers.mp3