Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships

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Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: thinking with and through affective inequalities
Part I Affective capacities in embodied encounters
	1 An affective (re)balancing act? The liminal possibilities for heterosexual partners on MDMA
	2 Boundless care: religious farm women and their emotional practices in post–World War II Finland
	3 Listening to old tapes: affective intensities and gendered power in bisexual women’s and ex-partners’ relationship assemblages
	4 Mapping affective capacities: gender and sexuality in relationship and sex counselling practices
Part II Affective transitions throughout intimate lives
	5 Yet another lesbian breakup? Understanding intimate relationship dynamics through affective resonance
	6 Slipping into ‘that nurse’s dress’: caring as affective practice in mixed-sex couples’ relationships
	7 When death cuts apart: on affective difference, compassionate companionship and lesbian widowhood
Part III Affective negotiations between partners
	8 Independence and vulnerability: affective orientations in imagining futurities for heterosexual relationships
	9 In the name of love: a relational approach to young people’s relationships in urban Mexico
	10 Affective dissonances: resources to disrupt gender binaries?
Part IV Affective intimacies beyond couples
	11 Mobilizing affects about intimate relationships: emotional pedagogy among the New Right in Germany
	12 The power(s) of friendship: affects and inequalities between friends
	13 Touch between child and mother as an affective practice: (re)producing bodies in haptic negotiations of intimate space
	14 Reviving ghostly bodies: student–teacher intimacies as affective hauntings
Index