The State of Affairs

Advances social research/theoretical discussion on the study of sexual affairs in committed personal relationships. For researchers, scholars, and students in social psychology, communication, sociology, family social, and clinical psychology, and for practitioners in couple counseling.

Jean Duncombe, Kaeren Harrison, Graham Allan, Dennis Marsden

Foreword, Steve Duck; Preface, Kaeren Harrison, Dennis Marsden; Chapter 1 Sex, Lies, and ... Transformation, Lise VanderVoort, Steve Duck; Chapter 2 The Sociological Significance of Affairs, David H. J. Morgan; Chapter 3 Intimacy, Negotiated Nonmonogamy, and the Limits of the Couple, Lynn Jamieson; Chapter 4 Communication and Marital Infidelity, Anita L. Vangelisti, Mandi Gerstenberger; Chapter 5 Renaissance of Romanticism in the Era of Increasing Individualism, Osmo Kontula, Elina Haavio-Mannila; Chapter 6 Men, Women, and Infidelity: Sex Differences in Extradyadic Sex and Jealousy, Bram P. Buunk, Pieternel Dijkstra; Chapter 7 Being Unfaithful: His and Her Affairs, Graham Allan; Chapter 8 "From Here to Epiphany ...": Power and Identity in the Narrative of an Affair, Jean Duncombe, Dennis Marsden; Chapter 9 A Different Affair? Openness and Nonmonogamy in Same Sex Relationships, Brian Heaphy, Catherine Donovan, Jeffrey Weeks; Chapter 10 Affairs and Children, Jean Duncombe, Dennis Marsden; Chapter 11 The Role of Female Friends in the Management of Affairs, Kaeren Harrison;