In the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular
and academic discussion of our personal lives. Relationships and
not necessarily marriage have gravitated to the center of our
relational lives. Many of us feel entitled to seek intimacy, an
emotionally depthful social bonding, rather than simply security or
companionship from our relationships. Unlike in a marriage-centred
culture, intimacy is today pursued in varied relationships, from
familial to friends and to romances. And intimacies are being
forged in multiple venues, from face-to-face to virtual, cyber
contexts.
A new scholarship has addressed this changing terrain of
personal life there is today a vast literature on cohabitation,
parenthood without marriage, sex and love outside marriage, queer
families, cyber intimacies and friendships. However, much
theorizing and research has focussed either on the interior,
subjective or sociocultural aspects of intimacies, not their
interaction.
This volume aims to break new ground: "Intimacies" explores the
psychological terrain of intimacy in depthful ways without
abandoning its sociohistorical context and the centrality of power
dynamics. Drawing on a rich archive that includes the social
sciences, feminism, queer studies, and psychoanalysis, the
contributors examine:
- changing cultures of intimacy
- fluid and solid attachments and intimacies from hook ups, to
sibling bonds, to erotic love
- a politics of intimacy that may involve state enforced
hierarchies, class, misrecognition, social exclusion and
violence
- embodied experiences of intimacy and dynamics of endings and
loss
- a pluralization of intimacies that challenge established
ethical hierarchies
This volume aims to define the cutting edge of this emerging
field of scholarship and politics. It challenges existing paradigms
that assume rigid hierarchical approaches to relational life.
"Intimacies" will be of interest for psychoanalysts and for
students or scholars in sexualities, gender studies, family
studies, feminism studies, queer studies, social class, cultural
studies, and philosophy."
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