| Description |
iv, 433 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theory, culture and society |
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Theory, culture & society.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Love and Eroticism - Mike Featherstone -- An Introduction -- On the Postmodern Uses of Sex - Zygmunt Bauman -- The Sexual Citizen - Jeffrey Weeks -- On the Way to the Post-Familial Family - From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities - Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- On the Elementary Forms of Socioerotic Life - Sasha Weitman -- Bohemian Love - Elizabeth Wilson -- Otto Gross and Else Jaff[ac]e and Max Weber - Sam Whimster with Gottfried Heuer -- The Lost Innocence of Love - Eva Illouz -- Romance as a Postmodern Condition -- Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960's Sexual Revolution - Cas Wouters -- Citysex - Henning Bech -- Representing Lust in Public -- Love and Structure - Charles Lindholm -- ̀Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe' - Mary Evans -- Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture -- Introduction to Georg Simmel's 'On the Sociology of the Family' - David Frisby -- On the Sociology of the Family - Georg Simmel -- Sex and Sociality - Laura Rival, Don Slater and Daniel Miller -- Comparative Ethnographies of Sexual Objectification -- The Nazi Eye Code of Falling in Love - Andrew Travers -- Bright Eyes, Black Heart, Crazed Gaze -- ̀On Me, Not In Me' - Cindy Patton -- Locating Affect in Nationalism after AIDS -- Seductions of the Impossible - Michael Richardson -- Love, the Erotic and Sacrifice in Surrealist Discourse -- The Lesson of Fire - Maria Esther Maciel -- Notes on Love and Eroticism in Octavio Paz's /f003The Double Flame -- Love, Gender and Morality - Mike Hepworth -- Stephen Kern's ̀Eyes of Love' -- Bodies, Sex and Death - Arthur W Frank |
| Summary |
Exploring the contested nature of love and eroticism, this collection examines the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture |
| Notes |
Simultaneously published as Volume 15, Numbers 3-4 of 'Theory, Culture & Society' - t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Love.
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Sex customs.
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Sexual attraction.
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Sexual excitement.
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| Author |
Featherstone, Mike.
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| LC no. |
99070886 |
| ISBN |
0761962514 (cased) |
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0761962522 |
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