Critical Perspectives on Wives: Roles, Representations, Identities, Work

Lynn O'Brien Hallstein (editor) & Rebecca Bromwich (editor)

ISBN 10: 1772581992 / ISBN 13: 9781772581997

Published by Demeter Press, 2019

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254 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Perspectives on Wives: Roles, Representations, Identities, Work
• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1772581992
• ISBN 13: 9781772581997
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.43 kilograms

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Synopsis

This anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject of feminist and legal study and hone in specifically on polyamory, polygamy, and Platonic affinities, considering the sexual and non-sexual ties of affect and affinity that link a diverse range of contemporary friendships that exist cross-culturally. This highly original book teases out commonalities between experiences of affinity that are enmeshed with the differences between social, national, legal, and cultural frameworks that surround these relationships of affinity and affect, and troubles forms of government and legal regulation that prohibit or fail to recognize the consensual interdependence connecting diverse forms of human friendship.

About the Author

Dr. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University and the author of White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophobia and Bikini-Ready Moms Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body. Dr. Rebecca Bromwich is a lawyer and legal scholar who is the Director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution program in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She is author and editor of several Demeter Press books.