Responsibility, Respectability, Recognition, and Polyamory: Lessons in Subject Formation in the Age of Sexual Identity

• Published in: Feminist studies Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 287 - 315
• Main Author: Obadia, Julienne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Park Feminist Studies, Inc 22.06.2020; Feminist Studies
• Subjects: 19th century; 20th century; Authenticity; Hegemony; Intersectionality; Intimacy; LGBTQ rights; Liberalism; Logic; Morality; Personhood; Political aspects; Polyamory; Same sex marriage; Sexual orientation; Sexuality; Social aspects; Supreme Court decisions; United States > US

The discursive shift that polyamory exemplifies, from the free love movement of the 1960s, with its countercultural critiques of social repression, to the expansion of identity-based formulations of immutable sexuality, was made possible in part by the gay rights movement and its legal victories aga...