This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life looks like.
Introduction; Tam Sanger and Yvette Taylor PART I: EMBODIED EXCHANGES: CHOICE, RISK AND VALUE 1. The Ties That Bind: Intimacy, Class, Sexuality; Yvette Taylor 2. Transnational Intimacies: Examples from Cambodia; Heidi Hoefinger 3. Lesbian Love and the Troublesome Sperm Donor: Intimacy, Normality and Morality in New Stories about Conception; Petra Nordqvist 4. Discourses of Female-to-Female STI Transmission: Of the Dent in Identity and Moments of Fixing; Anne Rudolph PART II: (DIS)ORDERING RELATIONS: VIOLENCE, VIOLATION, VOLITION 5. On Putting Down and Destroying: Affective Economies of a Women-Only Club in Istanbul; Evren Savci 6. Queering Care in Later Life: The Lived Experiences and Intimacies of Older Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults; Andrew King and Ann Cronin 7. 'She Expected her Women to be Pretty, Subservient, Dinner on the Table at Six': Problematising the Narrative of Egalitarianism in Lesbian Relationships through Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse; Rebecca Barnes 8. Blue Rinse Blues? Older Lesbians' Experiences of Domestic Violence; Megan Todd PART III: INTIMACIES: AFFECTIVE PROXIMITIES AND DISTANCES 9. Trans People's Partnerships: Rethinking the Limits of Relating; Tam Sanger 10. Queering Polyamory: From One Love to Many Loves and Back Again; Meg Barker, Jamie Heckert and Eleanor Wilkinson 11. Intimacy in Times of (De)normalization: Same-Sex Relational Recognition in Portugal; Ana Cristina Santos 12. 'Non-normative' Family Lives? Mapping Migrant Youth's Family and Intimate Relationships across National Divides and Spatial Distance; Tracey Ann Reynolds and Elisabetta Zontini.
