Meg Barker, Open University, UKRebecca Barnes, University of Leicester, UKAnn Cronin, Independent Researcher, UKHeidi Hoefinger, Chiang Mai University, ThailandAndrew King, University of Surrey, UKPetra Nordqvist, University of Manchester, UK Tracey Reynolds, London South Bank University, UKAnne Rudolph, Independent Researcher, UKAna Cristina Santos , University of Coimbra, PortugalEvren Savc?, Northwestern University, USMegan Todd, University of Central Lancashire, UKEleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds, UKElisabetta Zontini, University of Nottingham, UK

"Offering a journey through different forms of intimacy, this book offers a great read for understanding the arrival and future for the queer citizen. Detailing how the publicity of privacy is lived via polyromanticism, homonationalism, violence, friendships and domesticity and class, this collection of intimate lives offer rare glimpses into relations not usually seen, known or understood." - Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

• Introduction; Tam Sanger and Yvette Taylor PART I: EMBODIED EXCHANGES: CHOICE, RISK AND VALUE 1. The Ties That Bind: Intimacy, Class, Sexuality; Yvette Taylor 2. Transnational Intimacies: Examples from Cambodia; Heidi Hoefinger 3. Lesbian Love and the Troublesome Sperm Donor: Intimacy, Normality and Morality in New Stories about Conception; Petra Nordqvist 4. Discourses of Female-to-Female STI Transmission: Of the Dent in Identity and Moments of Fixing; Anne Rudolph PART II: (DIS)ORDERING RELATIONS: VIOLENCE, VIOLATION, VOLITION 5. On Putting Down and Destroying: Affective Economies of a Women-Only Club in Istanbul; Evren Savci 6. Queering Care in Later Life: The Lived Experiences and Intimacies of Older Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults; Andrew King and Ann Cronin 7. 'She Expected her Women to be Pretty, Subservient, Dinner on the Table at Six': Problematising the Narrative of Egalitarianism in Lesbian Relationships through Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse; Rebecca Barnes 8. Blue Rinse Blues? Older Lesbians' Experiences of Domestic Violence; Megan Todd PART III: INTIMACIES: AFFECTIVE PROXIMITIES AND DISTANCES 9. Trans People's Partnerships: Rethinking the Limits of Relating; Tam Sanger 10. Queering Polyamory: From One Love to Many Loves and Back Again; Meg Barker, Jamie Heckert and Eleanor Wilkinson 11. Intimacy in Times of (De)normalization: Same-Sex Relational Recognition in Portugal; Ana Cristina Santos 12. 'Non-normative' Family Lives? Mapping Migrant Youth's Family and Intimate Relationships across National Divides and Spatial Distance; Tracey Ann Reynolds and Elisabetta Zontini.