{"product_id":"intimacies-alan-frank-9780415626903","title":"Intimacies: A New World of Relational Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our personal lives. Relationships - and not necessarily marriage - have gravitated to the center of our relational lives. Many of us feel entitled to seek intimacy, an emotionally depthful social bonding, rather than simply security or companionship from our relationships. Unlike in a marriage-centred culture, intimacy is today pursued in varied relationships, from familial to friends and to romances. And intimacies are being forged in multiple venues, from face-to-face to virtual, cyber contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new scholarship has addressed this changing terrain of personal life - there is today a vast literature on cohabitation, parenthood without marriage, sex and love outside marriage, queer families, cyber intimacies and friendships. However, much theorizing and research has focussed either on the interior, subjective or sociocultural aspects of intimacies, not their interaction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume aims to break new ground: \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eexplores the psychological terrain of intimacy in depthful ways without abandoning its sociohistorical context and the centrality of power dynamics. Drawing on a rich archive that includes the social sciences, feminism, queer studies, and psychoanalysis, the contributors examine: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003echanging cultures of intimacy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003efluid and solid attachments and intimacies from hook ups, to sibling bonds, to erotic love\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea politics of intimacy that may involve state enforced hierarchies, class, misrecognition, social exclusion and violence\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eembodied experiences of intimacy and dynamics of endings and loss\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea pluralization of intimacies that challenge established ethical hierarchies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume aims to define the cutting edge of this emerging field of scholarship and politics. It challenges existing paradigms that assume rigid hierarchical approaches to relational life. \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest for psychoanalysts and for students or scholars in sexualities, gender studies, family studies, feminism studies, queer studies, social class, cultural studies, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Frank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415626900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415626903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.41w x 0.83d","brand":"Alan Frank","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064939163903,"sku":"9780415626903","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ef92457-b0f7-43c1-a8d3-0b387e17c306.jpg?v=1768672053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intimacies-alan-frank-9780415626903","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}