Format:
1 online resource (xii, 194 pages)
ISBN:
9781351780131
,
9781351780117
,
9781351780124
,
9781315200798
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality 23
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. The power of love: Towards an interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical feminist love studies -- The power of love -- Love as method: differences and synergies -- Note -- References -- PART I: Questioning love and power -- 2. The difference that love (power) makes -- My set of theories -- Love and love power: historically specific concepts -- Love power and the erotic as power -- Political sexuality: a dimension of society and domain of study -- The difference that love makes -- Love and systemic 'interpenetration' -- The question of cross-paradigmatic conversation -- Notes -- References -- 3. Alienation in love: Is mutual love the solution? -- The history of love -- A materialist-feminist ontology -- Materialist feminist views on alienation and love -- Alienation as a historical concept -- A historical view of sexual and love alienation -- The dialectic of love (intimacy) vs. sexuality (pleasure): romantic vs. mutual love -- Gender dualism as an ongoing structural feature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. What has happened to the feminist critique of romantic love in the same-sex marriage debate? -- The battle for same-sex marriage in Australia -- Marriage equals romantic love -- Against marriage -- Against romantic love -- The feminist critique -- Feminism, romantic love, and same-sex marriage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Love and affect -- 5. Loveas affective energy: Where feminist love studies meets feminist affect theory -- Feminist love studies meets feminist affect theory -- Love as an affective energy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. From murderous love to worldly love?: Affect theory, violence against women, and the materiality of love
Content:
The affective turn -- Violence against women: perspectives and strategies -- Notes -- References -- PART III: Togetherness and its forms -- 7. Feminist visions and socio-political meanings of non-monogamous love -- Contemporary bonding, plurality of love -- Consensual plurality and sustainability of bonding -- Notes -- References -- 8. The invisible ties We share: A relational analysis of the contemporary loving couple -- The semantics of love and the We -- Love in situation: the WeLR in motion -- Enminded bodies in the WeLR -- Final remarks: the bonds the WeLR creates -- Notes -- References -- 9. Silent love: On Irigaray's suggestion of cultivating sexual difference -- A culture of two subjects -- Listening -- The meaning of the word 'silence' -- Silence as a condition of love -- Cultivating silence -- Silent love -- Notes -- References -- 10. Love, feminism and dialectics: Repairing splits in theory and practice -- Dialectical critical realism -- Benjamin: from existential tension to oppressive contradiction -- Dialectics, necessity and redemptive critique -- The reparative turn and the issue of transformation -- In the pulse of now -- Closing words -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138710054
Additional Edition:
Druck-Ausgabe Erscheint auch als ISBN 9781138710054
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315200798
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