{"product_id":"the-empire-of-love-9780822338895","title":"The Empire of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes intimate relations as sites which bring into view the interplay between liberalism's contradictory ideals of freedom and constraint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement, tracking the intricate connections between forms of liberal governance and forms of love in the contemporary world. Povinelli renounces any temptation to take the highway of thought and instead takes the reader on a journey in which worlds known and less-known are slowly and patiently explored and shared. This is a book that touches the soul.”—Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e“What a brilliant book. Elizabeth A. Povinelli strives to make all the intellectual moves that need to be made today: connecting studies of sexuality to other phenomena that seem to be unrelated, thus opening out what gets to count as ‘sexuality’; thinking about sexuality in relation to liberal governance; and moving us beyond the binary opposition of freedom versus constraint. These arguments are refreshing as well as pressing for our times.”— Lisa Rofel, author of \u003ci\u003eDesiring China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writing in this exquisite and courageous book of her experiences of community at opposite ends of the world, Elizabeth A. Povinelli meditates here on everything that both links and divides Australian indigenes from North American radical faeries—and, in so doing, provides us with an astonishing account of embodied intimacies caught between global discourses of individual freedom and social constraint.”—Andrew Parker, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher and His Poor\u003c\/i\u003e by Jacques Rancière\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Empires of Love: An Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rotten Worlds 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Spiritual Freedom, Cultural Copyright 95\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Intimate Event and Genealogical Society 175\u003cbr\u003e Notes 237\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 257","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406044602711,"sku":"9780822338895","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-empire-of-love-9780822338895","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}