ISBN:
9780415704298
,
9781134648085
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (292 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality
Parallel Title:
Print version Love
DDC:
302.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 investigates love historically, in order to understand changing ideologies, representations and practices. The essays range from studies of particular representations and examples of love - feminist translation, mass media images and internet love blogs - to feminist theories of love and marriage, to ethical and politic
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Love; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Love Studies: A (Re)New(ed) Field of Feminist Knowledge Interests; Part I Gendered Interests in Sexual Love; 3 Love, Social Change, and Everyday Heterosexuality; 4 Royal Love: Gender, Power, and National Identity in the Swedish Crown Princess Wedding; 5 "Loving More Than One": On the Discourse of Polyamory; 6 A (Re)Turn to Love: An Epistemic Conversation between Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" and Jónasdóttir's "Love Power"
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Loving Him for Who He Is: The Microsociology of PowerPart II The Ethical and Political Implications of Time and Love in Caring Practices and Research; 8 Time to Love; 9 All in the Family: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Love; 10 Theorizing Love, Work, and Family in Early Norwegian Family Research and Today; 11 Moved by Love: How the Research of Love Can Change Our Deep-Rooted Emotional Understandings and Aff ective Consciousness; 12 Why Love, Care, and Solidarity Are Political Matters: Affective Equality and Fraser's Model of Social Justice
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III The Politics of Love and Radical/Revolutionary Transformation13 Revolutionary Love: Feminism, Love, and the Transformative Politics of Freedom in the Works of Wollstonecraft, Beauvoir, and Goldman; 14 Love in Translation: Neoliberal Availability or a Solidarity Practice?; 15 From Veiled to Unveiled: A Look at Discursive Representation of Body in Iranian Love Blogs; 16 Love in the Multitude? A Feminist Critique of Love as a Political Concept; 17 Feminist Love Politics: Romance, Care, and Solidarity; 18 Bread and Roses in the Common; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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