ISBN:
9780415162975
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (179 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Revolutions of the Heart : Gender, Power and the Delusions of Love
DDC:
306.7082
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book looks at how heterosexual relationships really work. Author?? argues that the process of falling in love is just a brief holiday from the gender roles which quickly reassert themselves in their old forms. Topics covered include romantic love, the problem of desire and the trouble with love
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEART; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Government by love; The rise of the passionate couple; A diminishing life in chains; The demoralisation of love; The political economy of love; Concrete love; Different but equal?; The language of the heart; The path of freedom?; Summary and conclusion; 2 Romantic transformations; Looking for a change; Single dissatisfactions; Writing herself into love; Risking it all; The saved and the damned; Another time, another place; True love at last; Summary and conclusion; 3 Analysing love
Description / Table of Contents:
Freudian transformationsLosing herself; Finding herself; Women who could do anything; Men who were not men; Gender, love and the 'missing self'; The trouble with love; Summary and conclusion; 4 Everybody's mummy; The abandonment; She's so demanding; Holding it all together; The power puzzle; Good boys, bad boys; Maternal compensations; Mummy's Boy; The counter-revolution part 1: his story; Summary and conclusion; 5 The daughter's submission; The power of silence; The power of evasion; 'Rational' man/'emotional' woman; Power of the fathers; Feeling 'so small'; Self-objectification
Description / Table of Contents:
Self-silencingDaddy's Girl; The counter-revolution part 2: her story; Summary and conclusion; 6 Dialectics of love; Twisted bonds; He couldn't even see it; But he said he loved me; The security paradox; Breaking the spell; Love and love's untwisting; Summary and conclusion; 7 Misguided revolutions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
