ISBN:
9780761962526
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (441 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Paralleltitel:
Print version Love & Eroticism
DDC:
306.7
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This major collection explores the nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, it contains wide-ranging and accessible contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Contents; Love and Eroticism: An Introduction; On Postmodern Uses of Sex; The Sexual Citizen; On the Way to a Post-Familial Family - From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities; On the Elementary Forms of the Socioerotic Life; Bohemian Love; Otto Gross and Else Jaffé and Max Weber; The Lost Innocence of Love: Romance as a Postmodern Condition; Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960s Sexual Revolution; Citysex: Representing Lust in Public; Love and Structure; 'Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe': Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction to Georg Simmel's 'On the Sociology of the Family'On the Sociology of the Family; Sex and Sociality: Comparative Ethnographies of Sexual Objectification; The Nazi Eye Code of Falling in Love: Bright Eyes, Black Heart, Crazed Gaze; 'On Me, Not In Me': Locating Affect in Nationalism after AIDS; Seductions of the Impossible: Love, the Erotic and Sacrifice in Surrealist Discourse; The Lesson of Fire: Notes on Love and Eroticism in Octavio Paz's The Double Flame; Love, Gender and Morality; Bodies, Sex and Death; Index;
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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