MJ Barker, R Gill, L Harvey - Sexualities, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The bold argument of Mediated Intimacy (Barker et al., 2018) 1 is that media of various kinds play an increasingly important role in shaping people's knowledge, desires, practices and …
Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present …
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of …
This book examines the meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act within the context of broader social, cultural, legal, political, theoretical and policy shifts concerning …
H Tessler - Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The term single is limited as it is defined as the absence of a romantic partner, which places one's relationship status within a binary, assumes availability for romantic partnership, and …
E Wilkinson - Environment and Planning A, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
What might it mean to think of 'the single'as a potentially queer subject and in what ways does singleness pose a challenge to heteronormative conceptualizations of the lifecourse …
H Tessler, C Winer - Sociology Compass, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines men as a minority in asexual (experiencing low/no sexual attraction) and aromantic (experiencing low/no romantic attraction) communities. First, we situate our …
E Wilkinson - Environment and Planning D: Society and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Love has been theorized as a way to rebuild fractured communities, and a potential way to overcome differences on the political Left. However, might it be dangerous to invest so much …
This article explores the ways in which coupledom is promoted through contemporary family policy in the UK. It does this in the context of dominant political discourses suggesting that …