Social Science Women's Studies
Critical Perspectives on 21st Century Friendship
Polyamory, Polygamy, and Platonic Affinity
- Publisher
- Demeter Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2019
- Category
- Women's Studies, Women's Health, Marriage, Motherhood, Feminism & Feminist Theory, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772582581
- Publish Date
- Oct 2019
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
This anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject of feminist and legal study and hone in specifically on polyamory, polygamy, and Platonic affinities, considering the sexual and non-sexual ties of affect and affinity that link a diverse range of contemporary friendships that exist cross-culturally. This highly original book teases out commonalities between experiences of affinity that are enmeshed with the differences between social, national, legal, and cultural frameworks that surround these relationships of affinity and affect, and troubles forms of government and legal regulation that prohibit or fail to recognize the consensual interdependence connecting diverse forms of human friendship.
About the authors
Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is a Ph.D. student (ABD) at Carleton University in the Faculty of Law and Legal Studies. She has a B.A. (Hon.) in social/ cultural anthropology from the University of Calgary, an LL.B. and an LL.M. from Queen’s and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati. Her Ph.D. research has theoretical foundations in feminist discourse analysis. Called to the Bar of Ontario in 2003, Rebecca has previously researched and published in a variety of areas, including feminist research about motherhood, youth criminal justice law, law practice management and equality issues relating to women and members of other historically marginalized groups in the legal profession. She is a PartTime Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and a staff lawyer, legislation and law reform with the Canadian Bar Association and has four amazing children.
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Olivia Ungar is an honours student in the law and legal studies program at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.
Noémie Richard is currently completing her 2nd year as an undergraduate honours student in the Bachelors of Global and International Studies at Carleton University, specializing in Global Law and Social Justice.
