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‘Christian Nations’,‘Polygamic Races’ and Women’s Rights: Toward a Genealogy of Non/Monogamy and Whiteness

Emory University, USA

This article offers a reading of historical discourses around non/monogamy with attention to their ‘racial resonances’. These 19th-century discourses helped to naturalize monogamy and to establish it as desirable, moral and feminist (and alternatives as undesirable, immoral and un-feminist). The article’s aim is to suggest that, like those surrounding other aspects of sexuality, discourses around non/monogamy cannot be adequately contextualized-or challenged-without attention to the ways in which they are constituted through race.

Key Words: feminism • monogamy • polygamy • scientific racism • whiteness

Sexualities, Vol. 9, No. 5, 530-546 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1363460706069964


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