Mapping Intimacies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Tam Sanger, Yvette Taylor

      Pages 1-12

3. Embodied Exchanges: Choice, Risk, Value

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Ties That Bind: Intimacy, Class, Sexuality

      • Yvette Taylor

      Pages 15-34

   3. Transnational Intimacies: Examples from Cambodia

      • Heidi Hoefinger

      Pages 35-53

   4. Lesbian Love and the Troublesome Sperm Donor: Intimacy, Normality and Morality in New Stories about Conception

      • Petra Nordqvist

      Pages 54-72

   5. Discourses of Female-to-Female STI Transmission: Of the Dent in Identity and Moments of Fixing

      • Anne Rudolph

      Pages 73-91

4. (Dis)ordering Relations: Violence, Violation, Volition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. On Putting Down and Destroying: Affective Economies of a Women-Only Club in Istanbul

      • Evren Savcı

      Pages 95-111

   3. Queering Care in Later Life: The Lived Experiences and Intimacies of Older Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults

      • Andrew King, Ann Cronin

      Pages 112-129

   4. ‘She Expected Her Women to be Pretty, Subservient, Dinner on the Table at Six’: Problematising the Narrative of Egalitarianism in Lesbian Relationships through Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse

      • Rebecca Barnes

      Pages 130-149

   5. Blue Rinse Blues? Older Lesbians’ Experiences of Domestic Violence

      • Megan Todd

      Pages 150-168

5. Intimacies: Affective Proximities and Distances

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Trans People’s Partnerships: Rethinking the Limits of Relating

      • Tam Sanger

      Pages 171-189

   3. Polyamorous Intimacies: From One Love to Many Loves and Back Again

      • Meg Barker, Jamie Heckert, Eleanor Wilkinson

      Pages 190-208

   4. Intimacy in Times of (De)normalisation: Same-Sex Relational Recognition in Portugal

      • Ana Cristina Santos

      Pages 209-227

   5. ‘Non-Normative’ Family Lives? Mapping Migrant Youth’s Family and Intimate Relationships across National Divides and Spatial Distance

      • Tracey Reynolds, Elisabetta Zontini

      Pages 228-247

6. Back Matter

   Pages 248-257

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This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life looks like.

• identity
• Partner
• women

"Offering a journey through different forms of intimacy, this book offers a great read for understanding the arrival and future for the queer citizen. Detailing how the publicity of privacy is lived via polyromanticism, homonationalism, violence, friendships and domesticity and class, this collection of intimate lives offer rare glimpses into relations not usually seen, known or understood." -

Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

• Independent academic, UK

  Tam Sanger

• London South Bank University, UK

  Yvette Taylor

Meg Barker, Open University, UK Rebecca Barnes, University of Leicester, UK Ann Cronin, Independent Researcher, UK Heidi Hoefinger, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Andrew King, University of Surrey, UK Petra Nordqvist, University of Manchester, UK Tracey Reynolds, London South Bank University, UK Anne Rudolph, Independent Researcher, UK Ana Cristina Santos , University of Coimbra, Portugal Evren Savc?, Northwestern University, US Megan Todd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Eleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds, UK Elisabetta Zontini, University of Nottingham, UK

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