Love A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century [Paperback]

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 political theories describing, critiquing or advocating the use of love in groups as a radical force. They break new ground in bringing together questions of gendered interests in love, temporal dimensions of loving practices and the politics of love in radical transformations of society.

1. Introduction  Ann Ferguson and Anna G. J?nasd?ttir  2. Love Studies: A (Re)New(ed) Field of Feminist Knowledge Interests  Anna G. J?nasd?ttir  Part I: Gendered Interests in Sexual Love  3. Love, Social Change, and Everyday Heterosexuality  Stevi Jackson  4. Royal Love: Gender, Power, and National Identity in the Swedish Crown Princess Wedding  Anna Adeniji  5. Loving More Than One : On the Discourse of Polyamory  Christian Klesse  6. A (Re)Turn to Love: An Epistemic Conversation between Lordes Uses of the Erotic and J?nasd?ttirs Love Power   Violet Eudine Barriteau  7. Loving Him for Who He Is: The Microsociology of Power  Lena Gunnarsson  Part II: The Ethical and Political Implications of Time and Love in Caring Practices and Research  8. Time to Love  Valerie Bryson  9. All in tlã1