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ID8201
NAMEC Klesse
GIVEN NAMESC
FAMILY NAMEKlesse
SIGNATUREKLESSE C
AFFILIATIONSManchester Metropolitan University
ORCID0000-0001-7439-2623
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS122
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6
  • International perspectives on nonmonogamies and Queer Kinship

    Open Access•C Klesse, Antonio Cerdeira Pilão et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2026

    This round table is based on a panel discussion that was held at the Symposium ‘Queer Kinship Studies – International Perspectives’ on 16 September 2025, at Manchester Metropolitan University, in the UK. It features leading scholars from within the field of nonmonogamies studies who have conducted research in different countries, including the United Kingdom, Portugal, Brazil, Israel/Palestine, and Australia. The participants in this conversation…

  • Beyond Equality—Non-Monogamy and the Necropolitics of Marriage

    Open Access•D Cardoso, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2025•References: 29

    ‘Marriage equality’ has been a widely used slogan and mobilizing concept for LGBTQ+ rights’ movements across the globe striving for formal recognition for ‘same-sex’ or ‘same-gender’ marriages. In this article, we critically interrogate the terminology and political rationality that have given shape to ‘marriage equality’ campaigns. We demonstrate the structural erasure of non-monogamous relations and populations from the changes hoped for and en…

  • Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2025•References: 42

    This article examines the role of food practices –namely, the sharing of food – in the production of political solidarity within spaces of LGBTQ + activism. We suggest that focusing on food practices can help us understand how care and pleasure underpin the politics of solidarity. Drawing on two multi-site qualitative research projects on transnational activism around LGBTQ cultural and political events in Poland and a comparative study of queer …

  • Towards a Queer Politics of Consensual Non-monogamy

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Revista Periódicus•2025

    This paper addresses the question how a queer perspective may inform radical and transformative political agendas around Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM). It argues that no relationships are ever truly transformative or transgressive because of their unconventional constellation alone. Rather, CNMs need to be consciously politicised in ways that tap into wider political movement agendas to fulfil their queer potential. The paper further argues that …

  • Introduction

    Open Access•C Klesse, Daniel Cardoso et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2024

    This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The contributions are concerned with the stigmatization of child-care practices that deviate from the default of couple-based monogamy, exceed biological definitions of kinship and experiment with new forms of spatial organization beyond shared residence. In this introduction, we highlight key themes …

  • Secrecy in intimate relationships

    Open Access•C Klesse, Jenny Van Hooff•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This article foregrounds the role of secrets in creating, maintaining and disrupting intimacy. We extend sociological theorising on secrecy by demonstrating the operative role of secrets, across the entire relational spectrum within the non/monogamy system. The focus on non/monogamy is particularly revealing, as questions about secrecy and deceit are intensely charged with moral meanings. Ultimately, we argue that secrecy is an integral and const…

  • Ken Plummer (4. April 1946 – 4. November 2022)

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung•2023

    Im Alter von 76 Jahren ist Prof. Dr. Ken Plummer im November letzten Jahres verstorben. Sein Tod beschloss ein kreatives Leben, welches er – unter anderem – dem Wissensgewinn um Fragen des Begehrens, des sexuellen Erlebens und der weitreichenden Ignoranz hinsichtlich der Vielfalt intimer und sexueller Praxen widmete. Mit Ken Plummer verloren wir einen der originellsten Pioniere der kritischen sozialwissenschaftlich orientierten Sexualforschung un…

  • Journeying with Ken Plummer through radical constructionism, critical humanism and intimate counterpublics

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023

    Ken Plummer’s life work has had a major impact on the development of the sociology of sexuality. While being firmly rooted in and committed to the traditions of pragmatism and symbolic interactionism – which chimes nicely with his philosophical stance of critical humanism – Ken Plummer openly engaged in a critical dialogue with many theoretical perspectives. This renders his work a rich resource for researchers working on sexualities from within …

  • Polyamorous Parenting

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2019

    As a response to the greater visibility of alternative relationship and family forms, polyamory (i.e. the practice of consensual multipartner relationships) has recently moved to the centre of public media attention. Questions of polyamory have emerged as a major concern within law, social policy, family sociology, and gender and sexuality studies. Yet certain core issues have remained underexplored. This includes the distinctive nature of polyam…

  • Theorizing multi-partner relationships and sexualities – Recent work on non-monogamy and polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2018

    This review article attests to the maturation of research into consensual non-monogamy and polyamory. It provides an in-depth review of a selection of recent publications that push boundaries and pair interdisciplinary inquiry with queer sensibility and theoretical sophistication in the three areas of theorizing emotions, theorizing intimacies and sexualities and theorizing discourses and the public sphere. This work foregrounds the persistence o…

  • Dancing on the waves or being washed away? Representations of bisexualities in Liquid Modernity

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2018

  • Bisexuality, Slippery Slopes, and Multipartner Marriage

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Journal of Bisexuality•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    This article explores the position of polyamory in slippery slope arguments directed against the campaign for same-sex marriage rights in the United States. In the rhetoric of right-wing opponents granting same-sex marriage rights is seen as the first step on a long spiral downwards toward moral decay, which will successively normalize a whole range of problematic and ‘unwanted’ practices. Polygamy and, in its close proximity, polyamory are usual…

  • The politics of age and generation at the Gaze International LGBT Film Festival in Dublin

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 25

    Despite their global proliferation, queer film festivals, like film festivals more broadly, are somewhat understudied within the social sciences. This is despite scholarship within film studies that argues that they are significant sites of queer collectivity and sociality. This article examines queer film festivals as sites for the production of community and queer bonds. The authors argue that questions of age, temporality and intergenerational…

  • Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Women's Erotic Autonomy

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Signs: Journal of Women in…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    References to the values of self-ownership and erotic autonomy figure prominently in women’s accounts of why they are practicing consensual nonmonogamy. Feminist critiques of monogamy demonstrate a long-standing endorsement of the value of erotic autonomy within feminist politics. In this article, I sketch a genealogy of feminist and queer-feminist work that explicitly or implicitly critiques compulsory monogamy and defends women’s nonmonogamous …

  • Repressive Hypothesis

    Open Access•C Klesse•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The publication of Michel Foucault's first volume of The History of Sexuality thoroughly transformed theoretical thinking around sexuality. A range of Foucault's longstanding concerns around power, knowledge, discourse, truth, and subjectivity culminate in this text about the genealogy of sexuality in western Christian societies. With this book, Foucault attempted to write the history of sexuality “from the viewpoint of the history of discourses.…

  • Researching Transnational Activism around LGBTQ Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    J Binnie, C Klesse•CHAPTER•De-Centring Western Sexualities•2016

    This chapter examines the transnational dimensions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics and activism in Poland. It focuses on the discussion of transnational activist solidarities together by focusing on their spatial politics. It traces the main contexts for the project, and discusses how one's undertook the research. The chapter focuses on one key aspect of the project namely the concept of solidarity, how it has be…

  • The Spectre of Promiscuity

    C Klesse•BOOK•The Spectre of Promiscuity•2016

    Wide-ranging research suggests that partners in gay male and bisexual relationships do not necessarily expect monogamy, or see it as an important issue. Although the frequency of gay male and bisexual non-monogamous partnerships tends to be widely acknowledged in social science literature, these relationships have rarely been explored in more detail. By providing rich empirical data, thoughtful analysis and theoretical debate, this book makes a s…

  • Polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2014

    Polyamory means different things to different people. While some consider polyamory to be nothing more than a convenient label for their current relationship constellations or a handy tool for communicating their willingness to enter more than one relationship at a time, others claim it as one of their core identities. Essentialist identity narratives have sustained recent arguments that polyamory is best understood as a sexual orientation and is…

  • Poly Economics—Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2014

    Academic research and popular writing on nonmonogamy and polyamory has so far paid insufficient attention to class divisions and questions of political economy. This is striking since research indicates the significance of class and race privilege within many polyamorous communities. This structure of privilege is mirrored in the exclusivist construction of these communities. The article aims to fill the gap created by the silence on class by sug…

  • Lntroduction

    Open Access•Susie Jacob, Susie Jacobs et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 45

  • Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station

    J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•New Community•2013•Cited by: 18•References: 31

    This article examines the relationship between East-West migration in Europe and activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics in Poland. EU accession in 2004 was accompanied by an intensification of homophobia in Polish political discourse particularly associated with neo-populist Radical Right parties such as Law and Justice and the League of Polish Families. Marches for the tolerance and equality of lesbians, g…

  • The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sociology•2013•Cited by: 12•References: 19

    Age, temporality and intergenerationality have often been neglected in debates on intersectionality within sexuality studies. This article contributes towards these debates by examining how age and generation operate within transnational activism around LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics) in Poland. Drawing on interviews with activists in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, this article examines age an…

  • Solidarities and tensions

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highligh…

  • Shady Characters, Untrustworthy Partners, and Promiscuous Sluts

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Journal of Bisexuality•2011•Cited by: 37•References: 22

    This article explores the question: what kind of relationship problems do bisexual people experience as a result bi-negative attitudes? It explores stereotypical representations of bisexuality focusing on bisexual identity, intimacy, and sexuality. Bisexuals are often cast as highly problematic or risky lovers or partners. Bisexual intimacies face erasure through invisibility, misrecognition through distortion, or condemnation through moral deval…

  • Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Tourist Studies•2011•Cited by: 15•References: 15

    This article explores the overlaps between tourism and forms of political activism. The authors examine the politics of hospitality and solidarity within transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks formed to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Poland. Based on interviews with participants in the March for Tolerance in Krakow - the city's annual tolerance and equality march - the authors argue that ques…

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  • Shady Characters, Untrustworthy Partners, and Promiscuous Sluts

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Journal of Bisexuality•2011•Cited by: 37•References: 22

    This article explores the question: what kind of relationship problems do bisexual people experience as a result bi-negative attitudes? It explores stereotypical representations of bisexuality focusing on bisexual identity, intimacy, and sexuality. Bisexuals are often cast as highly problematic or risky lovers or partners. Bisexual intimacies face erasure through invisibility, misrecognition through distortion, or condemnation through moral deval…

  • Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station

    J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•New Community•2013•Cited by: 18•References: 31

    This article examines the relationship between East-West migration in Europe and activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics in Poland. EU accession in 2004 was accompanied by an intensification of homophobia in Polish political discourse particularly associated with neo-populist Radical Right parties such as Law and Justice and the League of Polish Families. Marches for the tolerance and equality of lesbians, g…

  • Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Tourist Studies•2011•Cited by: 15•References: 15

    This article explores the overlaps between tourism and forms of political activism. The authors examine the politics of hospitality and solidarity within transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks formed to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Poland. Based on interviews with participants in the March for Tolerance in Krakow - the city's annual tolerance and equality march - the authors argue that ques…

  • The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sociology•2013•Cited by: 12•References: 19

    Age, temporality and intergenerationality have often been neglected in debates on intersectionality within sexuality studies. This article contributes towards these debates by examining how age and generation operate within transnational activism around LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics) in Poland. Drawing on interviews with activists in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, this article examines age an…

  • Modern Primitivism

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Body & Society•1999•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    This article focuses on the philosophy underpinning the non-mainstream body modification practices of `Modern Primitives'. This subculture seeks inspiration in the body modification techniques and bodily rituals of so-called `primitive societies'. Establishing their prioritization of body, sexuality, community and spirituality as analytical links, the author shows that these self-perceived radical opponents of Western modernity nonetheless remain…

  • Solidarities and tensions

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highligh…

  • How to Be a Happy Homosexual?!' Non-Monogamy and Governmentality in Relationship Manuals for Gay Men in the 1980s and 1990s

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 14

    This article explores discourses on non-monogamy in relationship manuals published in the 1980s and 1990s for gay men from a perspective of governmentality. A distinctive feature of relationship manuals for gay men is the presentation of (non-) monogamy as a matter of choice and negotiation. However, within this paradigm, most manuals problematise recreational, casual, or non-relational sex or relationships with multiple partners through a set of…

  • Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Women's Erotic Autonomy

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Signs: Journal of Women in…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    References to the values of self-ownership and erotic autonomy figure prominently in women’s accounts of why they are practicing consensual nonmonogamy. Feminist critiques of monogamy demonstrate a long-standing endorsement of the value of erotic autonomy within feminist politics. In this article, I sketch a genealogy of feminist and queer-feminist work that explicitly or implicitly critiques compulsory monogamy and defends women’s nonmonogamous …

  • Racialising the Politics of Transgression

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2007•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This article critically evaluates strategies of transgression by the means of non-mainstream body modifications. Queer people have used a vast array of body alterations to articulate queer desire or identity. This paper directs attention to the racialised dimension of queer practices of body modification. The prevalence of neo-primitivist aesthetics and ideologies and the allure of racial cross-identification in a predominantly white culture of s…

  • Bisexuality, Slippery Slopes, and Multipartner Marriage

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Journal of Bisexuality•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    This article explores the position of polyamory in slippery slope arguments directed against the campaign for same-sex marriage rights in the United States. In the rhetoric of right-wing opponents granting same-sex marriage rights is seen as the first step on a long spiral downwards toward moral decay, which will successively normalize a whole range of problematic and ‘unwanted’ practices. Polygamy and, in its close proximity, polyamory are usual…

  • The politics of age and generation at the Gaze International LGBT Film Festival in Dublin

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 25

    Despite their global proliferation, queer film festivals, like film festivals more broadly, are somewhat understudied within the social sciences. This is despite scholarship within film studies that argues that they are significant sites of queer collectivity and sociality. This article examines queer film festivals as sites for the production of community and queer bonds. The authors argue that questions of age, temporality and intergenerational…

  • Lntroduction

    Open Access•Susie Jacob, Susie Jacobs et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 45

  • Secrecy in intimate relationships

    Open Access•C Klesse, Jenny Van Hooff•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This article foregrounds the role of secrets in creating, maintaining and disrupting intimacy. We extend sociological theorising on secrecy by demonstrating the operative role of secrets, across the entire relational spectrum within the non/monogamy system. The focus on non/monogamy is particularly revealing, as questions about secrecy and deceit are intensely charged with moral meanings. Ultimately, we argue that secrecy is an integral and const…

  • Repressive Hypothesis

    Open Access•C Klesse•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The publication of Michel Foucault's first volume of The History of Sexuality thoroughly transformed theoretical thinking around sexuality. A range of Foucault's longstanding concerns around power, knowledge, discourse, truth, and subjectivity culminate in this text about the genealogy of sexuality in western Christian societies. With this book, Foucault attempted to write the history of sexuality “from the viewpoint of the history of discourses.…

  • Modern Primitivism

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Body & Society•1999•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    This article focuses on the philosophy underpinning the non-mainstream body modification practices of `Modern Primitives'. This subculture seeks inspiration in the body modification techniques and bodily rituals of so-called `primitive societies'. Establishing their prioritization of body, sexuality, community and spirituality as analytical links, the author shows that these self-perceived radical opponents of Western modernity nonetheless remain…

  • Bisexual Women, Non-Monogamy and Differentialist Anti-Promiscuity Discourses

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2005

    Popular discourses on bisexuality assume a peculiar interrelation between bisexuality and non-monogamy. Drawing upon qualitative research in gay male and bisexual non-monogamies in the UK, this article explores bisexual women’s accounts on the effects of promiscuity allegations on non-monogamous sexual and relationship practice. Due to the prominence of gender as a differentializing factor in the discourses on promiscuity, to be publicly known as…

  • Polyamory and its ‘Others’

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2006

    Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with bisexual-identified practitioners of polyamory in the UK, this article shows that love, intimacy and friendship are salient themes in polyamory discourses. An exploration of the question of how respondents define polyamory with regard to different ‘styles of non-monogamy’ reveals that the boundaries of polyamory are contested within the movement that has formed around this concept. The prevalent def…

  • Poly/logue

    Open Access•J Haritaworn, Chin-Ju Lin et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2006

    Polyamory describes a form of relationship where it is possible, valid and worthwhile to maintain (usually long-term) intimate and sexual relationships with multiple partners simultaneously. Nevertheless, debates around polyamory have often suffered from an evasion of power in the ultimate and community contexts within which the concept arose. In this introduction, we trace the political contexts in which polyamory arose, investigate their implic…

  • Polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2007

    Polyamory is a novel concept that has surfaced over recent decades in the debates about non‐monogamy. Polyamory circumscribes a relationship philosophy, an identity, or a lifestyle that evolves around the belief that it is worthwhile and valid to have more than one partner. Combining word elements derived from Greek (poly) and Latin (amory), the term literally translates into “many loves.” The concept of polyamory aims at providing a positive alt…

  • Racialising the Politics of Transgression

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2007•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This article critically evaluates strategies of transgression by the means of non-mainstream body modifications. Queer people have used a vast array of body alterations to articulate queer desire or identity. This paper directs attention to the racialised dimension of queer practices of body modification. The prevalence of neo-primitivist aesthetics and ideologies and the allure of racial cross-identification in a predominantly white culture of s…

  • Bisexuality

    Open Access•C Klesse•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2007

    Definitions of bisexuality are manifold and heterogeneous. There are at least four seemingly contradictory meanings associated with the term. Firstly, in early sexology bisexuality was conceived of as a primordial state of hermaphroditism prior to sexual differentiation. Secondly, bisexuality has been invoked to describe the co‐presence of “feminine” and “masculine” psychological traits in a human being. The idea of androgyny has impinged to a ce…

  • How to Be a Happy Homosexual?!' Non-Monogamy and Governmentality in Relationship Manuals for Gay Men in the 1980s and 1990s

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 14

    This article explores discourses on non-monogamy in relationship manuals published in the 1980s and 1990s for gay men from a perspective of governmentality. A distinctive feature of relationship manuals for gay men is the presentation of (non-) monogamy as a matter of choice and negotiation. However, within this paradigm, most manuals problematise recreational, casual, or non-relational sex or relationships with multiple partners through a set of…

  • Intersektionalität oder Simultaneität?! — Zur Verschränkung und Gleichzeitigkeit mehrfacher Machtverhältnisse — Eine Einführung

    Umut Erel, Jinthana Haritaworn et al.•CHAPTER•Heteronormativität•2008

    Analytische Perspektiven, die sich auf das Konzept der ‘Intersektionalität’ beziehen, versprechen eine reflektierte Betrachtungsweise des Ineinandergreifens und der gegenseitigen Bedingtheit verschiedener Machtverhältnisse. Der Begriff wird allerdings heute in der deutschsprachigen Debatte auf eine Art verwendet, die versucht, sehr unterschiedliche Diskussionen unter einer Bezeichnung zu fassen. Darin realisieren sich jedoch auch Strategien der H…

  • Heteronormativität. Empirische Studien zu Geschlecht, Sexualität und Macht — eine Einführung

    Jutta Hartmann, C Klesse•CHAPTER•Heteronormativität•2008

    Der Begriff der Heteronormativität beschreibt Heterosexualität als ein zentrales Machtverhältnis, das alle wesentlichen gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Bereiche, ja die Subjekte selbst durchzieht. In der gängigen Rezeption referiert der Begriff auf die wechselseitige Verwiesenheit von Geschlecht und Sexualität und hebt die Erkenntnis hervor, dass vorherrschende Geschlechterdiskurse in mehrfacher Weise heterosexualisiert sind: Sie basieren zum …

  • Heteronormativität und qualitative Forschung. Methodische Überlegungen

    C Klesse•CHAPTER•Heteronormativität•2008

    Im Heteronormativitätskonzept treffen eine Vielzahl theoretischer Entwicklungen aufeinander. Maßgebliche Einflüsse liegen in feministischen Gender-Theorien, lesbisch-schwulen Sexualitätskritiken, psychoanalytischen Identitätskonzepten, poststrukturalistischen Subjekt- und Machttheorien sowie in der materialistischen Gesellschaftskritik (vgl. Wagenknecht in diesem Band). Es liegen vielfältige Definitionen des Begriffes vor. Verschiedene Schwerpunk…

  • Shady Characters, Untrustworthy Partners, and Promiscuous Sluts

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Journal of Bisexuality•2011•Cited by: 37•References: 22

    This article explores the question: what kind of relationship problems do bisexual people experience as a result bi-negative attitudes? It explores stereotypical representations of bisexuality focusing on bisexual identity, intimacy, and sexuality. Bisexuals are often cast as highly problematic or risky lovers or partners. Bisexual intimacies face erasure through invisibility, misrecognition through distortion, or condemnation through moral deval…

  • Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Tourist Studies•2011•Cited by: 15•References: 15

    This article explores the overlaps between tourism and forms of political activism. The authors examine the politics of hospitality and solidarity within transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks formed to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Poland. Based on interviews with participants in the March for Tolerance in Krakow - the city's annual tolerance and equality march - the authors argue that ques…

  • Solidarities and tensions

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highligh…

  • Lntroduction

    Open Access•Susie Jacob, Susie Jacobs et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 45

  • Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station

    J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•New Community•2013•Cited by: 18•References: 31

    This article examines the relationship between East-West migration in Europe and activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics in Poland. EU accession in 2004 was accompanied by an intensification of homophobia in Polish political discourse particularly associated with neo-populist Radical Right parties such as Law and Justice and the League of Polish Families. Marches for the tolerance and equality of lesbians, g…

  • The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks

    Open Access•J Binnie, C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sociology•2013•Cited by: 12•References: 19

    Age, temporality and intergenerationality have often been neglected in debates on intersectionality within sexuality studies. This article contributes towards these debates by examining how age and generation operate within transnational activism around LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics) in Poland. Drawing on interviews with activists in Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, this article examines age an…

  • Polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2014

    Polyamory means different things to different people. While some consider polyamory to be nothing more than a convenient label for their current relationship constellations or a handy tool for communicating their willingness to enter more than one relationship at a time, others claim it as one of their core identities. Essentialist identity narratives have sustained recent arguments that polyamory is best understood as a sexual orientation and is…

  • Poly Economics—Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•International Journal of Politics…•2014

    Academic research and popular writing on nonmonogamy and polyamory has so far paid insufficient attention to class divisions and questions of political economy. This is striking since research indicates the significance of class and race privilege within many polyamorous communities. This structure of privilege is mirrored in the exclusivist construction of these communities. The article aims to fill the gap created by the silence on class by sug…

  • Researching Transnational Activism around LGBTQ Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    J Binnie, C Klesse•CHAPTER•De-Centring Western Sexualities•2016

    This chapter examines the transnational dimensions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics and activism in Poland. It focuses on the discussion of transnational activist solidarities together by focusing on their spatial politics. It traces the main contexts for the project, and discusses how one's undertook the research. The chapter focuses on one key aspect of the project namely the concept of solidarity, how it has be…

  • The Spectre of Promiscuity

    C Klesse•BOOK•The Spectre of Promiscuity•2016

    Wide-ranging research suggests that partners in gay male and bisexual relationships do not necessarily expect monogamy, or see it as an important issue. Although the frequency of gay male and bisexual non-monogamous partnerships tends to be widely acknowledged in social science literature, these relationships have rarely been explored in more detail. By providing rich empirical data, thoughtful analysis and theoretical debate, this book makes a s…

  • Repressive Hypothesis

    Open Access•C Klesse•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The publication of Michel Foucault's first volume of The History of Sexuality thoroughly transformed theoretical thinking around sexuality. A range of Foucault's longstanding concerns around power, knowledge, discourse, truth, and subjectivity culminate in this text about the genealogy of sexuality in western Christian societies. With this book, Foucault attempted to write the history of sexuality “from the viewpoint of the history of discourses.…

  • Theorizing multi-partner relationships and sexualities – Recent work on non-monogamy and polyamory

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2018

    This review article attests to the maturation of research into consensual non-monogamy and polyamory. It provides an in-depth review of a selection of recent publications that push boundaries and pair interdisciplinary inquiry with queer sensibility and theoretical sophistication in the three areas of theorizing emotions, theorizing intimacies and sexualities and theorizing discourses and the public sphere. This work foregrounds the persistence o…

  • Dancing on the waves or being washed away? Representations of bisexualities in Liquid Modernity

    Open Access•C Klesse•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2018

  • Bisexuality, Slippery Slopes, and Multipartner Marriage

    C Klesse•ARTICLE•Journal of Bisexuality•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    This article explores the position of polyamory in slippery slope arguments directed against the campaign for same-sex marriage rights in the United States. In the rhetoric of right-wing opponents granting same-sex marriage rights is seen as the first step on a long spiral downwards toward moral decay, which will successively normalize a whole range of problematic and ‘unwanted’ practices. Polygamy and, in its close proximity, polyamory are usual…

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