The emotion of love is ontologically foundational: it is through love that people fulfil their basic humanity, by relating to one another and forging and re-tracing, time and again, the borders of their identity. Children first apprehend their sense of self as they are loved by those who care and raise them; later in life individuals continue to relate to others in multiple and heterogeneous loving ways, in friendship, in bonds of altruistic care, and in intimate and erotic relationships. In this collection, we explore how gender is tied to 'doing' love, and shapes loving practices in gender specific ways; we explore how loving and being loved correlate to modes of identity formation and we investigate how ideologies on gender and love can be correlated to subjection and intimate violence, yet can also offer the occasion for emancipation through a praxis of resistance to patriarchal power.
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Gender and love are approached through diverse methodological and analytical lenses and present the findings of sociological and ethnographic research projects.
An Introduction Serena Petrella Part I What Is Love? Love, Care and Personal Relations in Feminist Moral Philosophy Rekha Navneet Metaphors of Power: Ontologies of Gender, Love and Marriage Karey Harrison Part II Framing Love: Legal Formations Cracking Down on 'Big Love': British Columbia's Supreme Court Decision to Uphold the Criminalization of Mormon Polygamy while Decriminalizing Polyamory Serena Patrella Part III Constructions of Love 'It Has Changed Me from the Person that I Was Before': Love and the Construction of Young Black Masculinities Mandisa Malinga and Kopano Ratele Gendered Discourses of Romantic Love/ing and Violence Halimah A. F. DeShong Caring for Those We Care About: The Alienating Power of Love in Anglophone Caribbean Middle Class Heterosexual Relationships Andrea N. Baldwin Part IV Narratives of Love Female Performance and Deconstruction of Gender in Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder Manja Kurschner 'I Love You, Man!' Homosociality and Television Narrative Angie Knaggs Part V Practices of Love Love Stories: Naming Decisions and Narrative in Contemporary Britain Rachel Thwaites A Novel Gay 'Right' of Passage: Constructing Ceremonies, Conveying Meaning and Displaying Identities through Men's Civil Partnerships Robert Stocker, Sally Hardy and Eamonn McKeown
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ISBN
9781848882737
Publisert
2014-10-01
Utgiver
Inter/Connexions; Inter-Disciplinary Press
Vekt
350 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
261

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Serena Petrella was born in Italy and moved to Canada as a teenager. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Carleton University. She is particularly interested in the regulation of sexuality in the law and in social justice, the evolution of relational norms, dissident eroticism, and theorizing the erotic. She teaches Sociology at Brandon University, in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.