Contributions, based on research conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, about intimate partner violence that is specific to the lives of LGBTQ people. The volume is framed around central themes: conceptualizing violence: exploring differing spaces and lived experiences of violence: and the ethical challenges of responding to violence. The contributors also consider issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and other social differences.
This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners throughout the world to explore non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine the history and cultural basis of various forms of non-monogamy, experiences of non-monogamous living, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, the discursive construction of mono-normativity as well as issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender.