| Speaking of home truth: (re)productions of dyadic-containment in non-monogamous relationships. | |
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PMID: 17949533 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper is a critical exploration of the discursive and socio-historical practice of 'dyadic-containment' as a principle index for how we know, experience, and authenticate romantic relationships. Making intelligible an 'authentic' relationship as something which is fixed, enclosed and exclusive, the pervasive principle of dyadic-containment has considerable implications for what it means to live out 'authentic' but ostensibly liberated relationships. Using post-structuralist discourse analysis to explore ways in which people can account for their consensual non-monogamous relationships (same and cross-sex, dyadic and non-dyadic), we critique the liberal-humanist framework from which such relationships can be played out. In that dyadic-containment as an aspect of an ontology of interiorized and contained 'realness' can be viewed as serving to characterize and authorize monogamous relationships (as we illustrate), practices of consensual non-monogamy that reproduce dyadic-containment as an organizing and authenticating principle are problematized. Limits to understandings and practices of some 'alternative' romantic relationships are therefore expounded and consideration is given to how relational difference might be otherwise premised. |
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Authors:
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Mark Finn; Helen Malson |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2007-10-18 |
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Title: The British journal of social psychology / the British Psychological Society Volume: 47 ISSN: 0144-6665 ISO Abbreviation: Br J Soc Psychol Publication Date: 2008 Sep |
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Created Date: 2008-08-22 Completed Date: 2009-01-08 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8105534 Medline TA: Br J Soc Psychol Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 519-33 Citation Subset: IM |
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School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. FinnM@cardiff.ac.uk |
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Adult Female Humans Interpersonal Relations* Love* Male Middle Aged Sexual Behavior* |
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