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Looks at the global transformation towards a marital ideal characterized by emotional intimacy, companionship, and mutual choice - known as ""companionate marriage"". This book analyzes the intricate negotiations surrounding love, marriage, and sex in Mexico, India, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Singapore.

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Modern Loves offers an overview of current scholarship on love in the context of sexual relationships cross-culturally, and provides a view of the complexity of varied aspects of emotion, social structure, and social change in contemporary sexual relationships. It makes the case for a political economic understanding of the emergence of ideologies of love, marriage, and courtship as part of expanding global economies. - Linda-Anne Rebhun, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/27/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472099597, 978-0472099597
      ISBN10: 0472099590

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      Book Synopsis
      Looks at the global transformation towards a marital ideal characterized by emotional intimacy, companionship, and mutual choice - known as ""companionate marriage"". This book analyzes the intricate negotiations surrounding love, marriage, and sex in Mexico, India, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Singapore.

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      Modern Loves offers an overview of current scholarship on love in the context of sexual relationships cross-culturally, and provides a view of the complexity of varied aspects of emotion, social structure, and social change in contemporary sexual relationships. It makes the case for a political economic understanding of the emergence of ideologies of love, marriage, and courtship as part of expanding global economies. - Linda-Anne Rebhun, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

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