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

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Narrating and Relating to Ordinariness. Experiences of Unconventional Intimacie...

Sexualities Research: Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practi...

Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: editorial introduction

Changing Landscapes of Heteronormativity: The Regulation and Normalization of S...

This paper explores transformations in institutional norms about same-sex sexualities across four European countries: Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal and the UK. Focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the present day, it examines both endogenous, path-dependent nationally specific factors at work in the changing regulation of same-sex sexualities, particularly the campaigns of lesbian and gay movements, and e...

Close encounters: researching intimate lives in Europe

This research note aims to extend the discussion on the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life. Drawing on a comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family, it reflects on the processes of gaining access to often hard-to-reach populations which informed and influenced the empirical work that we ca...

Remaking intimate citizenship in multicultural Europe: experiences outside the ...

Intimate citizenship and gendered well-being: the claims and interventions of w...

Over the past 40 years women’s movements have expanded the scope of the politics of well-being, bringing issues of intimate life into the realm of claims for citizenship. In using the concept of ‘intimate citizenship’, we are incorporating the central second wave feminist claim that ‘the personal is political’, that ‘public’ and ‘private’ are always mutually entangled. We draw, in particular, on the work of Ken...

Changing cultural discourses about intimate life: the demands and actions of wo...