1. The Dyadic Imaginary: Troubling the Perception of Love as Dyadic.
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Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette, Barber, Kristen, and Hunter, Erica
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DYADIC analysis (Social sciences) ,SAME-sex marriage ,GAY identity - Abstract
In this paper, we offer a new theoretical framework for studying love and intimacy in the social sciences. We show that relationships which are not dyadic are often rendered invisible in scholarly accounts of love and intimacy. After reviewing the literature, we apply our new theoretical and methodological framework-the dyadic imaginary-to a case study: same-sex marriage and its relationship to bisexual and queer identities. In this section, we explore how the dyadic imaginary highlights the assumed dyadism of marriage, its relationship to sexual practices that do not rely on gender/sex binaries, and, finally, we discuss the social implications of our case study analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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