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Title The state of affairs : explorations in infidelity and commitment / edited by Jean Duncombe ... [and others]
Published Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

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Description xxv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series LEA's series on personal relationships
LEA's series on personal relationships.
Contents Series foreword / Steve Duck -- Preface / Kaeren Harrison and Dennis Marsden -- 1. Sex, lies and ... transformation / Lise Vander Voort and Steve Duck -- 2. The sociological significance of affairs / David H. J. Morgan -- 3. Intimacy, negotiated nonmonogamy, and the limits of the couple / Lynn Jamieson -- 4. Communication and martial infidelity / Anita L. Vangelisti and Mandi Gerstenberger -- 5. Renaissance of romanticism in the era if increasing individualism / Osmo Kontula and Elina Haavio-Mannila -- 6. Men, women, and infidelity : sex differences in extradyadic sex and jealousy / Bram P. Buunk and Pieternel Dijkstra -- 7. Being unfaithful : his turn and her affairs / Graham Allan -- 8. "From here to epiphany..." : power and identity in the narrative of an affair / Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden -- 9. A different affair? : openness and nonmonogamy in same sex relationships / Brian Heaphy, Catherine Donovan and Jeffrey Weeks
10. Affairs and children / Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden -- 11. The role of female friends in the management of affairs / Kaeren Harrison
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and indexes
Subject Adultery.
Commitment (Psychology)
Couples.
Marriage.
Author Duncombe, Jean, 1950-
LC no. 2003057396
ISBN 0805844570 (alk. paper)
0805844589