Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

"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."--Provided by publisher Introduction / Ann Ferguson And Anna G. Jónasdóttir -- Love Studies: A (re)new(ed) Field Of Feminist Knowledge Interests / Anna G. Jónasdóttir -- Love, Social Change, And Everyday Heterosexuality / Stevi Jackson -- Royal Love: Gender, Power, And National Identity In The Swedish Crown Princess Wedding / Anna Adeniji -- Loving More Than One: On The Discourse Of Polyamory / Christian Klesse -- A (re)turn To Love: An Epistemic Conversation Between Lorde's Uses Of The Erotic And Jónasdóttir's Love Power / Violet Eudine Barriteau -- Loving Him For Who He Is: The Microsociology Of Power / Lena Gunnarsson -- Time To Love / Valerie Bryson -- All In The Family: Patriarchy, Capitalism, And Love / Alyssa Schneebaum -- Theorizing Love, Work, And Family In Early Norwegian Family Research And Today / Margunn Bjørnholt -- Moved By Love: How The Research Of Love Can Change Our Deep-rooted Emotional Understandings And Affective Consciousness / Rosa M. Medina-doménech, Mari Luz Esteban-galarza, And Ana Távora-rivero -- Why Love, Care, And Solidarity Are Political Matters: Affective Equality And Fraser's Model Of Social Justice / Kathleen Lynch -- Revolutionary Love: Feminism, Love, And The Transformative Politics Of Freedom In The Works Of Wollstonecraft, Beauvoir, And Goldman / Leyna Lowe -- Love In Translation: Neoliberal Availability Or A Solidarity Practice? / Ewa Majewska -- From Veiled To Unveiled: A Look At Discursive Representation Of Body In Iranian Love Blogs / Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty -- Love In The Multitude? A Feminist Critique Of Love As A Political Concept / Eleanor Wilkinson -- Feminist Love Politics: Romance, Care, And Solidarity / Ann Ferguson -- Bread And Roses In The Common / Rosemary Hennessy. Edited By Anna G. Jónasdóttir And Ann Ferguson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Love 2 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Table of Contents 8 List of Figures 12 Preface and Acknowledgments 14 1 Introduction 16 2 Love Studies: A (Re)New(ed) Field of Feminist Knowledge Interests 26 Part I Gendered Interests in Sexual Love 46 3 Love, Social Change, and Everyday Heterosexuality 48 4 Royal Love: Gender, Power, and National Identity in the Swedish Crown Princess Wedding 63 5 “Loving More Than One”: On the Discourse of Polyamory 78 6 A (Re)Turn to Love: An Epistemic Conversation between Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic” and Jónasdóttir’s “Love Power” 92 7 Loving Him for Who He Is: The Microsociology of Power 112 Part II The Ethical and Political Implications of Time and Love in Caring Practices and Research 126 8 Time to Love 128 9 All in the Family: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Love 142 10 Theorizing Love, Work, and Family in Early Norwegian Family Research and Today 156 11 Moved by Love: How the Research of Love Can Change Our Deep-Rooted Emotional Understandings and Aff ective Consciousness 173 12 Why Love, Care, and Solidarity Are Political Matters: Affective Equality and Fraser’s Model of Social Justice 188 Part III The Politics of Love and Radical/Revolutionary Transformation 206 13 Revolutionary Love: Feminism, Love, and the Transformative Politics of Freedom in the Works of Wollstonecraft, Beauvoir, and Goldman 208 14 Love in Translation: Neoliberal Availability or a Solidarity Practice? 222 15 From Veiled to Unveiled: A Look at Discursive Representation of Body in Iranian Love Blogs 235 16 Love in the Multitude? A Feminist Critique of Love as a Political Concept 252 17 Feminist Love Politics: Romance, Care, and Solidarity 265 18 Bread and Roses in the Common 280 Contributors 294 Index 298 This collection 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