Theoretical polyamory: Some thoughts on loving, thinking, and queering anarchism

Shannon, Deric; Willis, Abbey

doi:10.1177/1363460710370655

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“…I employ a broad definition of queering, and focus here on actions and representations that ‘disturb the order of things’ and that—in making things oblique—open up other ways to inhabit those forms (Ahmed, 2006). Queer theory addresses both the ways that we become ‘constituted as socially viable beings’ (J Butler, 2004: 2) and the many ways that we are denied that social viability through the discursive construction of identities that often function more as cages than descriptors (Shannon and Willis, 2010). Certainly graphic birth imagery, and the normative assumptions about (hetero)sexualized femininity that it indexes, serves to constrain our understanding of appropriate female embodiment.…”

Section: Queering Sexy Birth Depictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexy birth: Breaking Hollywood’s last taboo

Jolly

2017

Sexualities

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I look at several depictions of birth in popular culture that seem to be breaking ‘Hollywood’s last taboo’ against showing graphic representations of the birthing body. I offer four illustrations of this relatively recent departure from conventional birth imagery and discuss (1) the 2006 sculpture of Britney Spears birthing on a bearskin rug, (2) the crowning scene in the 2007 movie Knocked Up, (3) a 2012 birth scene depicted in the HBO show Game of Thrones, and (4) a birth montage from an episode of the Netflix show Sense8, to suggest that representations of birth no longer solely depict asexual bodies. I consider the consequences that these sexualized representations of the birthing body might have for women’s embodied experience of birth and evaluate this sexy birth imagery in light of a cultural shift towards an increasingly (hetero)sexualized femininity. In particular, I am interested to explore how normative (hetero)sexualized femininity may align with the growing medical management of childbirth and the uptick in surgical delivery. I investigate whether graphic depictions of birth leave us with increased sexual objectification or the possibility for a new sexual subjecthood. I close by offering a queer reading of the birth depictions in the Netflix drama Sense8 and consider how its non-normative depictions of women’s laboring bodies may unsettle the powerful norms that constitute (hetero)sexualized femininity and refigure women’s experiences of childbirth.

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Section: Queering Sexy Birth Depictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexy birth: Breaking Hollywood’s last taboo

Jolly

2017

Sexualities

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“…In addition, there is a healthy discussion of polyamory in academic journals and book chapters, addressing the relationship of polyamory to multiple topics, such as: anarchist theory (e.g. Heckert, 2010;Shannon & Willis, 2010); feminism and women's issues (e.g. Aguilar, 2013;Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2013);…”

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

Richards¹,

Barker²

2015

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“…Recent debates have emphasized the need for a new progressive politics of love which could entail a broadening beyond the ideal of the romantic couple to encompass the revolutionary couple or the “non‐neighbor” (Žižek ), to enable the “community‐to‐come” (Agamben ), or to promote new polyamorous relationships which would reflect on, and translate into, new politics of non‐domination (Heckert ; Shannon ). More recently, Hardt and Negri () even called for love as the new ground for political emancipation, warning readers against the constant threat of “love gone bad,” which find its clearest expression in the love of one's country leading to fascism (see also Ahmed ).…”

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In the Name of Love: Marriage Migration, Governmentality, and Technologies of Love

D’Aoust

2013

Int Polit Sociol

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The past 10 years have seen an increase in legislation pertaining to marriage migration in Europe. Such attention betrays various concerns and anxieties that intersect not only with issues of risk management, rights, and citizenship, but also with less tangible dimensions such as emotions, which become embedded in legal as well as in surveillance practices. Emotions such as love are integral to the institutions, procedures, analyses and reflections, calculation, and tactics that Foucault identified as part of governmental processes; the latter should not necessarily be equated with (and limited to) rationalized technocratic processes detached from emotional components. Technologies of love are central to the governmentality of marriage migration; as modes of subjectification and governing practice, they connect intimacy with citizenship. More than the manifestation of the rationalization of a specific emotion, technologies of love allow for an exploration of what an engagement with emotions such as love does to governmentality. Illustrations of the “attachment requirement” in Denmark, and the case of “Catgate” in Great Britain, show that technologies of love play a significant role in stirring and disciplining specific migration flows (what kind of marriage migrants the state welcomes or keeps at bay), but also in challenging, even if inadvertently, those policies and practices designed to gauge “true” relationships.

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Theoretical polyamory: Some thoughts on loving, thinking, and queering anarchism

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

Sexy birth: Breaking Hollywood’s last taboo

Sexy birth: Breaking Hollywood’s last taboo

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

In the Name of Love: Marriage Migration, Governmentality, and Technologies of Love

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