This volume explores "inappropriate relationships" across a range of definitions and circumstances. Scholars and researchers in relationship study, interpersonal comm, sociology, social psych will find it a rich resource for further study and research.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's | |
Foreword | |
Preface | |
Conceptualizing Inappropriate Relationships | |
Scarlet Letters and Whited Sepulchres: The Social Marking of Relationships as "Inappropriate." | |
Functional Features: An Evolutionary Perspective on Inappropriate Relationships | |
Inappropriate Marriages | |
Marital Affairs | |
Interracial Relationships | |
Mixed Marriages: Music Community Membership as a Source of Marital Strain | |
Counternormative Relationships | |
Cross-Gender Friendship: The Troublesome Relationship | |
Same-Sex Relationships | |
Power-Discrepant Relationships | |
Inappropriate Therapist-Patient "Relationships." | |
Over My Dead Body: On the Histories and Cultures of Necrophilia | |
The Inappropriateness of Relational Intrusion | |
Social Exclusion--Pedophile Style | |
Epilogue | |
Inappropriate Relationships in a Time of Social Change...Some Reflections on Culture, History, and Relational Dimensions | |
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