Love and Sexuality in Social Theory [Hardcover]

'Introduction. Introduction: Sexuality and Social Theory: Studying Sexuality, Love and Intimate Life. Part I. Forerunners and Modern Classics. 1. Authority, Love, and Sexuality in the Works of John Millar. 2. Georg Simmel: the Flirtation, the Love, and the Dualism of Individuality. 3. Discovering Altruism: Sorokins Love Analysis. 4. The Chicago Schools Reflection on Love, Sexuality, and Deviance: A Reading of William Isaac Thomass The Unadjusted Girl: With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis. 5. Marianne Weber and the (wo)mens Condition: Love as a Device for Social Change. 6. Love and Sexuality in the Frankfurt School. 7. Reichs Legacy: Power and Sexuality in Social Life. 8. The Crossed Ambivalence: Social Equality and Sexual Difference in Simone De Beauvoir. 9. Intimacy in the Interaction Order: The Legacy of Erving Goffman in Studies of Gender, Love and Sexuality. Part II. Classics of the Contemporary Age. 10. Michel Foucault: Sex and Sexuality in the Genealogy of the Modern Western Subject. 11. The Code of Intimacy. Love and Sexuality in Niklas Luhmann. 12. The New Diotima: Agnes Heller's Thoughts on Love. 13. Sexual Scripts: Sexuality and Desire in the Work of John H. Gagnon and William Simon. 14. The Trials and Tribulations of Late-modern Intimate Life: Revisiting the Ideas of Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman on Contemporary Love, Sexuality, and Eroticism. 15. Romantic Suffering and Morality: Love for Illouz.

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory?considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life.?

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. 

Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, this book presents both theoretical and empirical studies of love and sexuality as social fals§