Love's refraction
Subtitle: jealousy and compersion in queer women's polyamorous relationships
By: Jillian Deri
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781442637092; 9781442628694
Subjects: Jealousy; Love; Lesbians; Non-monogamous relationships; Psychological aspects
Other titles: Jealousy and compersion in queer women's polyamorous relationships
Description: Popular wisdom might suggest that jealousy is an invevitable outcome of non-monogamous relationships. In Love's Refraction, Jillian Deri explores the distinctive question of how and why polyamorists -people who practise consensual non-monogamy -manage jealousy. Her focus is on the polyamorist concept of "compersion" -taking pleasure in a lover's other romantic and sexual encounters. By discussing the experiences of queer, lesbian, and bisexual polyamorous women, Deri highlights the social and structural context that surrounds jealousy. Her analysis, making use of the sociology of emotion and feminist intersectionality theory, shows how polyamory challenges traditional emotional and sexual norms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index.
Table of contents: title: But don't you get jealous?; title: Polyagony : an exploration of jealousy; title: If you move to the rainforest, you've got no right to complain about the rain : from polyagony to compersion; title: Once you say, "I'm poly," It kind of eliminates the need for the feminist part : gender, jealousy, and polyamory; title: Jealousy can be hot if you flip it : working and playing with power; title: Polyamory's legacy : concluding remarks.