Intimate Explorations: Reading Across Disciplines
edited by Alejandro Cervantes-Carson and Beatriz Oria
ISBN: 978-1-904710-47-9
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Contents
Introduction
Under the Umbrella of Persons
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Section I Re-Conceptualising Intimacy
Making Sense of Intimacy: A Contest Between Love and Friendship
Pauline Johnson
Challenging the Idea of Intimacy as Intimate Relationships: Reflections on Intimacy as an Analytical Concept
Jessica Mjoberg
Forsaking All Others: The Norm of Monogamy
Bryan R. Weaver and Fiona Woollard
“Love is as Strong as Death”: The Triadic Love of Franz Rosenzweig, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Gritli Huessy
Wayne Cristaudo
Care of Self as Demarcation: Everyday Life Practices of Self Care as the Intermediation of Work and Life
Sabine Flick
Section II Contextualised Intimacies
Love, Sex, and In Between: Being a Woman and Middle-Class in Singapore
Goh Scuzhen
Masculine Indentities and Affective Equality: Exploring Love and Care in Men’s Lives
Niall Hanlon
An Ethnographic Deconstruction of Sex and Relationships Education in Scotland
Paul Gilfillan
Intimacy Intervened: Happenstance and Social Norms as Determinants of Intimate Relationships among Mexican Low-Income Women
Roberto Castro Perez
Intimate Social Values and Economic Transformation: An Interpretation of Qualitative Interviews from Russia, China and Eastern Germany
Christopher Swader
Which Interests are at the Heart of Sex and Relationships in Scotland?
Lorna Savage and Rebecca Mancy
But is it Haram (Religiously Forbidden)? A Comparison of the Love Laws for Arabs and Americans
Don Love
Section III Representations of Intimacy
Disarticulations: Love, Language and Knowledge in Contemporary Retellings of the Bluebeard Tale
Lucy Butler
No More Happily Ever After? The Representation of Intimate Culture in Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Beatriz Oria
Of Multiple Collisions and Interethnic Conflicts Making Sense of Personal and Interpersonal Relationsihps in Crash
Olga Seco
Intimacy and Absence across the Globe: The Literary Relationship between Georgiana Molloy and Captain James Mangles
Jessica White
Love Beyond Ethnicity: The Problematic Representation of Intercultural Relationships in British and Indian Cinema
Elena Oliete
Bye, Bye to Romance?: Representations of Victorian Love in David Lean’s Hobson’s Choice
Esther Perez Villalba
Section IV Challenging Intimacies
Exploring Strangeness in the Plurality of the Teacher-Student Relationship
Momoyo Mitsuno
I’ll Look After You if You Look After Me: Friendship, Family and Intimacy in a Hostel for Homeless People
Rebecca Brown
Animals: Friendship and Love
Chad Wolf
Tell It Like It Is: The Importance of Acknowledging Love as a Component of Abnormal Sexuality
David White
Negotiating Intimacies in an Eroticised Environment: Xiaojies in the Nightclubs, Karaoke Houses and Massage Parlors of South China
Yu Ding
Disturbing Intimacies: The Micro-Politics Of Interviewing the Embodiment of Political Evil
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Notes on Contributors
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