The Dyadic Imaginary: Troubling the Perception of Love as Dyadic

Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette; Barber, Kristen; Hunter, Erica C D

doi:10.1080/15299710802170797

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“…Third, a queer paradigm challenges the normative privileging of monoamory and dyadic monogamy in intimacy (e.g., Manley, Diamond, & van Anders, 2015). The normative assumption is that intimacy occurs between two individuals who restrict their sexual and romantic lives to each other (Emens, 2004;Hidalgo, Barber, & Hunter, 2008). The idealization of this configuration and its codification through social institutions such as marriage has an extensive history (e.g., Barash & Lipton, 2001;Coontz, 2005;Seidman, 2015).…”

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Queer Intimacies: A New Paradigm for the Study of Relationship Diversity

Hammack

Frost

Hughes

2018

The Journal of Sex Research

101

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Recognition of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century challenges normative assumptions of intimacy that privilege heterosexual monogamy and the biological family unit, presume binary cisgender identities, essentialize binary sexual identities, and view sexual or romantic desire as necessary. We propose a queer paradigm to study relationship diversity grounded in seven axioms: intimacy may occur (1) within relationships featuring any combination of cisgender, transgender, or nonbinary identities; (2) with people of multiple gender identities across the life course; (3) in multiple relationships simultaneously with consent; (4) within relationships characterized by consensual asymmetry, power exchange, or role-play; (5) in the absence or limited experience of sexual or romantic desire; (6) in the context of a chosen rather than biological family; and (7) in other possible forms yet unknown. We review research on queer relational forms, including same-sex relationships; relationships in which one or more partners identify as transgender, gender nonbinary, bisexual, pansexual, sexually fluid, "mostly" straight, asexual, or aromantic; polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy; kink/fetish relationships; and chosen families. We argue that a queer paradigm shifts the dominant scientific conception of relationships away from the confines of normativity toward an embrace of diversity, fluidity, and possibility.

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Queer Intimacies: A New Paradigm for the Study of Relationship Diversity

Hammack

Frost

Hughes

2018

The Journal of Sex Research

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“…As a concept and institution, same-sex marriage reinforces the dichotomous perception of sex, gender, and sexual orientation (Hidalgo, Barber, & Hunter, 2007;Prasad, 2007); therefore, more research is needed which focuses on the varied ways bisexual individuals conceptualize and experience both sex and gender. For example, in Study 2 participants identified themselves on a series of dimensions related to sex and gender-including birth sex, gender 298 BISEXUALITY AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE raised, current gender identity, and trans identity.…”

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Bisexual Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage

Galupo¹,

Pearl²

2008

Journal of Bisexuality

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“…A clunky, borderline tongue-twisting term, ‘mononormativity’ is one of many words that have been used to conceptualise the place of monogamy in social life, almost all coined through analogy to terms in sexuality studies. ‘Dyadic imaginary’, for example, describes through analogy to Ingraham’s ‘heterosexual imaginary’ the ideological construct that ‘renders non-dyadic intimate and sexual relationship forms invisible and unnatural’ (Hidalgo et al., 2008: 173). ‘Normative monogamy’ and similar phrases are used to describe individual relationships that follow what is seen as the common monogamous pattern (see, for example Gilmartin, 2007; Petrella, 2005).…”

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A stunning plurality: Unravelling hetero- and mononormativities through HBO’s Big Love

Kean

2015

Sexualities

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Sexism, heteronormativity and mononormativity are constitutively entangled, but to what extent does undoing one undo the others? Through a reading of HBO's Big Love, a television series about a polygamous family that is conservative in every way except their plural marriage, this article argues that there are ways in which intimacy might be politically transgressive even as it reinforces gender and sexual norms. Expanding on the definition of 'mononormativity' through analogy to Berlant and Warner's (1998) 'heteronormativity' it is argued that in order to do justice to the complexity of intimate politics we must attend to relational norms and their transgression.

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The Dyadic Imaginary: Troubling the Perception of Love as Dyadic

Cited by 10 publications

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Queer Intimacies: A New Paradigm for the Study of Relationship Diversity

Queer Intimacies: A New Paradigm for the Study of Relationship Diversity

Bisexual Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage

A stunning plurality: Unravelling hetero- and mononormativities through HBO’s Big Love

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