Artikel
Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Women’s Erotic Autonomy : Feminist and Queer-Feminist Critiques of Monogamy
Verfasst von:
Klesse, Christian
in:
Signs
Chicago:
2018
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205-231 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Klesse, Christian |
| In: | Signs |
| Jahr: | 2018 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| References to the values of self-ownership and erotic autonomy figure prominently in women’s accounts of why they are practicing consensual nonmonogamy. Feminist critiques of monogamy demonstrate a long-standing endorsement of the value of erotic autonomy within feminist politics. In this article, I sketch a genealogy of feminist and queer-feminist work that explicitly or implicitly critiques compulsory monogamy and defends women’s nonmonogamous ways of life to explore how the nexus of (non)monogamy and erotic autonomy has been theorized across different periods and within different strands of feminist politics. I argue that the common concern with systemic oppression, collective struggle, and solidarity sustains politicized views of women’s erotic autonomy as a relational phenomenon, which—if placed within a multiscalar framework—can capture not only intersubjective but also sociopolitical dimensions of relationality. Feminist critiques of monogamy thus provide a rich repertoire of political theorizing that advocates for the conceptualization of both autonomy and sexual politics in ways that avoid the shortfalls of individualistic or (liberal) humanistic intersubjective models. I present a reappraisal of these previous modes of feminist critiques of monogamy and highlight the significance of exploring multiple structural power relations... | |
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