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    Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives

    Klesse, Christian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7439-2623, Cardoso, Daniel, Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria, Raab, Michael, Schadler, Cornelia and Schippers, Mimi (2024) Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives. Sexualities, 27 (4). pp. 761-772. ISSN 1363-4607

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    Abstract

    This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The contributions are concerned with the stigmatization of child-care practices that deviate from the default of couple-based monogamy, exceed biological definitions of kinship and experiment with new forms of spatial organization beyond shared residence. In this introduction, we highlight key themes of previous research, highlight normative pressures and counter-normative contestations around the themes of exclusivity, gendered parenting roles, relational development framed as intimate growth and a pervasive reproductive futurism. Polyamorous parenting practices negotiate a complex social terrain shaped by social and health policies, law, housing development, creating new avenues for parenting roles, and the (re)organization of care work and the division of labour in child-rearing.

    Item Type: Article (Article)
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 27 Jul 2022 09:08
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Additional Information: This is an accepted manuscript of an article which appeared in Sexualities, published by SAGE Publication. It is the introduction to a Special Issue. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference.
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Subject terms: care work, children, Consensual non-monogamy, parenting, polyamory, reproduction, SEXUALITY, Social Sciences, Sociology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, parenting, children, care work, reproduction, SEXUALITY, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1699 Other Studies in Human Society, 2002 Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/630159
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221114466
    ISSN 1363-4607
    e-ISSN 1461-7382

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