The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate citizenship regimes in a changing Europe

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate citizenship regimes in a changing Europe
ISBN-10
1787358895
ISBN-13
9781787358898
Category
Social Science
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2020-11-05
Publisher
UCL Press
Authors
Isabel Crowhurst, Mariya Stoilova, Sasha Roseneil

Description

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this book provides a detailed analysis of changing intimate citizenship regimes in Europe, and makes a major intervention in understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. The authors develop the feminist concept of ‘intimate citizenship’ and propose the new concept of ‘intimate citizenship regime’, offering a study of intimate citizenship regimes as normative systems that have been undergoing profound change in recent decades. Against the backdrop of processes of de-patriarchalization, liberalization, pluralization and homonormalization, the ongoing potency of the couple-norm becomes ever clearer.

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