This collection of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics, and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investig…
"This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that…
In The End of Love, Eva Illouz documents the multifarious ways in which relationships end. While sociology has classically focused on the formation of social bonds, this book makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve. "Unloving" and non-ch…
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him…
Introduction: from choice to non-choice -- Premodern courtship, social certainty and the rise of negative relationships -- Confusing sex -- The rise of ontological uncertainty -- A freedom with many limits -- Divorce as a negative relationship -- Conclusion: negative relations a…
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him…
"This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways …
"This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways …
This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.
This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.