ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Gendered Interests in Sexual Love
part |2 pages
Part II The Ethical and Political Implications of Time and Love in Caring Practices and Research
part |2 pages
Part III The Politics of Love and Radical/Revolutionary Transformation