Ebook: Inappropriate relationships : the unconventional, the disapproved & the forbidden
Author: Robin Goodwin, Duncan Cramer
- Series: LEA's series on personal relationships
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- City: London
- Language: English
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"Contributors to the 12 chapters in this book discuss the personal boundaries and taboos of modern relationships. Together they examine the power struggles that can occur when individuals are involved in "inappropriate" relationships, and the ways individuals in such a relationship may attempt to buffer themselves against sanctions - or even embrace this relationship as an agent of social change." "Representing work Read more...
1. Scarlet letters and whited sepulchres : the social marking of relationships as "inappropriate" / Steve Duck and Lise VanderVoort --
2. Functional features : an evolutionary perspective on inappropriate relationships / Pamela C. Regan --
3. Marital affairs / Graham Allan and Kaeren Harrison --
4. Interracial relationships / Stanley O. Gaines, and Jennifer Leaver --
5. Mixed marriages : music community membership as a source of marital strain / Rebecca G. Adams and Jane Rosen-Grandon --
6. Cross-gender friendship : the troublesome relationship / Roger Baumgarte --
7. Same-sex relationships / Andrew K.T. Yip --
8. Inappropriate therapist-patient "relationships" / Tanya Garrett --
9. Over my dead body : on the histories and cultures of necrophilia / Dany Nobus --
10. The inappropriateness of relational intrusion / Brian H. Spitzberg and William R. Cupach --
11. Social exclusion : pedophile style / Dennis Howitt --
12. Inappropriate relationships in a time of social change : some reflections on culture, history, and relational dimensions / Robin Goodwin and Duncan Cramer.