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Book SynopsisSince the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of a true lovea has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more difficult to achieve in the West has begun to attract considerable attention.
Trade Review"What's happening to love? In this deeply important, and well crafted book, Evans explores the cultural premises underlying our fantasies about it. Over the last two hundred years in the West, she argues, we have personalized and sexualized love, and unhitched it from marriage. But then we have de-eroticized sex, and unwittingly thinned out the cultural soil which might nurture the bonds we so care to preserve. This is not because we're bad people but because we're swimming around in a culture of love we need to radically rethink."
Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California at Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming Commercialization of Intimate Life and Other EssaysTable of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Chapter One: What is This Thing Called Love?.
Chapter Two: Going Back.
Chapter Three: The Language of Love.
Chapter Four: The Rules of Love.
Chapter Five: The Limits of Love.
Chapter Six: The Future of Love.
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