ABSTRACT

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters. It also seeks to bridge a gap between affect theory and empirical social research by providing ideas and inspiration of how to work with affect in research practice.

Presenting cutting-edge empirical studies on affect and intimate relationships, the collection

- introduces alternative and novel ways of conceptualizing the workings of affect in intimate relationships

- provides tools for tackling the subtle ways in which affectivity connects with power relations in intimate relations

- develops innovative methodologies that provide better access to affect as an embodied experience

A fascinating contribution to the interdisciplinary field of affect studies, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships will appeal to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as gender studies, queer studies and cultural studies.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

Thinking with and through affective inequalities

part I|61 pages

Affective capacities in embodied encounters

chapter 1|15 pages

An affective (re)balancing act?

The liminal possibilities for heterosexual partners on MDMA

chapter 2|15 pages

Boundless care

Religious farm women and their emotional practices in post–World War II Finland

chapter 3|14 pages

Listening to old tapes

Affective intensities and gendered power in bisexual women’s and ex-partners’ relationship assemblages

chapter 4|15 pages

Mapping affective capacities

Gender and sexuality in relationship and sex counselling practices 1

part II|45 pages

Affective transitions throughout intimate lives

chapter 5|14 pages

Yet another lesbian breakup?

Understanding intimate relationship dynamics through affective resonance

chapter 6|14 pages

Slipping into ‘that nurse’s dress’

Caring as affective practice in mixed-sex couples’ relationships

chapter 7|15 pages

When death cuts apart

On affective difference, compassionate companionship and lesbian widowhood

part III|44 pages

Affective negotiations between partners

chapter 8|14 pages

Independence and vulnerability

Affective orientations in imagining futurities for heterosexual relationships

chapter 9|14 pages

In the name of love

A relational approach to young people’s relationships in urban Mexico

chapter 10|14 pages

Affective dissonances

Resources to disrupt gender binaries?

part IV|62 pages

Affective intimacies beyond couples

chapter 11|15 pages

Mobilizing affects about intimate relationships

Emotional pedagogy among the New Right in Germany

chapter 12|15 pages

The power(s) of friendship

Affects and inequalities between friends

chapter 13|17 pages

Touch between child and mother as an affective practice

(Re)producing bodies in haptic negotiations of intimate space

chapter 14|13 pages

Reviving ghostly bodies

Student–teacher intimacies as affective hauntings