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Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey

Undoing Monogamy By Angela Willey

Undoing Monogamy by Angela Willey


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In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey analyzes the contemporary science of monogamy, demanding a critical reorientation toward the understanding of monogamy and non-monogamy in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Undoing Monogamy Summary

Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology by Angela Willey

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging. She approaches the politics and materiality of monogamy as intertwined with one another such that disciplinary ways of knowing themselves become an object of critical inquiry. Refusing to answer the naturalization of monogamy with a naturalization of nonmonogamy, Willey demands a critical reorientation toward the monogamy question in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The book examines colonial sexual science, monogamous voles, polyamory, and the work of Alison Bechdel and Audre Lorde to show how challenging the lens through which human nature is seen as monogamous or nonmonogamous forces us to reconsider our investments in coupling and in disciplinary notions of biological bodies.

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"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 *
"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] has something to teach everyone: every reader will find something new and unfamiliar in its pages." -- Clare Chambers * International Feminist Journal of Politics *
"The thoroughly interdisciplinary methodology, alongside ethical and joyful visions of a dyke science, give us all a new way forward, where we do not make easy scapegoats of disciplines, but interrogate and integrate our various disciplines through our deeply naturecultural worlds." -- Banu Subramaniam * Science, Technology and Society *
"A richly interdisciplinary book . . . that demonstrates a facility and ease with multiple approaches in feminist science studies. . . . Willeys really substantive contribution to queer theory and sexuality studies, which is that the idea of monogamy and nonmonogamy as sexual practicesas sex itselfhas been obscuring something of value: the expansive social worlds that might emerge if both monogamy and its others were critiqued." -- Kyla Tompkins * American Quarterly *
"Undoing Monogamy makes a key theoretical intervention: clarifying ow new materialist approaches can build on, rather than depart from (or at worst, ignore), the insights of feminist science studies. Angela Willey makes a necessary and pointed contribution. . . .This is a scholar to watch for self-reflexive, multidisciplinary, and intersectional feminist research that challenges us all to conceive of critique and world-building as compatible projects." -- Kyla Schuller * Catalyst *

About Angela Willey

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

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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GOR010550898
9780822361596
0822361590
Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology by Angela Willey
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2016-05-13
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