EPISODE · Dec 29, 2017
Best of 2017: Mimi Schippers on Polyamory and Polyqueer Sexualities
from Office Hours · host Allison Nobles
In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards being in a relationship with only one other person at a time. Schippers argues that this compulsory disposition towards monogamy limits […]
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In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers [1] about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities [2]. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards being in a relationship with only one other person at a time. Schippers argues that this compulsory disposition towards monogamy limits the ways that we can view relationships, and reproduces various kinds of inequalities. Download Office Hours #131 [3] [1] http://www2.tulane.edu/liberal-arts/sociology/schipper-profile.cfm [2] https://nyupress.org/books/9781479886227/ [3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH131_Schippers.mp3
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