Romantic love / by Hendrick, Susan S.

Romantic love / by Hendrick, Susan S.

The making of romantic love longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / by Reddy, William M.

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The making of romantic love longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / by Reddy, William M.

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Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love by Bloch, R. Howard

“…Medieval misogyny & the invention of Western romantic love…”
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Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love by Bloch, R. Howard

“…Medieval misogyny & the invention of Western romantic love…”
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Searching the heart women, men, and romantic love in nineteenth-century America / by Lystra, Karen

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Searching the heart women, men, and romantic love in nineteenth-century America / by Lystra, Karen

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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations / by Warner, John M. (John Martin), 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Rousseau's theory of human relations -- Social longing and moral perfection -- Pity and human weakness -- Romantic love in Emile -- Romantic love in Julie -- Friendship, virtue, and moral authority -- The ecology of justice -- The sociology of wholeness.…”
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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations / by Warner, John M. (John Martin), 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Rousseau's theory of human relations -- Social longing and moral perfection -- Pity and human weakness -- Romantic love in Emile -- Romantic love in Julie -- Friendship, virtue, and moral authority -- The ecology of justice -- The sociology of wholeness.…”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Mixed Feelings : Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture / by Garloff, Katja

Table of Contents: “…1800: romantic love and the beginnings of Jewish emancipation -- Interfaith love and the pursuit of emancipation -- Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Romantic love and the denial of difference -- Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit -- Figures of love in later Romantic antisemitism -- Achim von Arnim -- 1900: the crisis of Jewish emancipation and assimilation -- Refiguring the language of race -- Ludwig Jacobowski, Max Nordau, Georg Hermann -- Eros and thanatos in fin-de-siecle Vienna -- Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Arthur Schnitzler -- Revelatory love, or the dynamics of dissimilation -- Franz Rosenzweig and Else Lasker-Schuler -- Toward the present and the future -- Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Honigmann.…”
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Mixed Feelings : Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture / by Garloff, Katja

Table of Contents: “…1800: romantic love and the beginnings of Jewish emancipation -- Interfaith love and the pursuit of emancipation -- Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Romantic love and the denial of difference -- Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit -- Figures of love in later Romantic antisemitism -- Achim von Arnim -- 1900: the crisis of Jewish emancipation and assimilation -- Refiguring the language of race -- Ludwig Jacobowski, Max Nordau, Georg Hermann -- Eros and thanatos in fin-de-siecle Vienna -- Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Arthur Schnitzler -- Revelatory love, or the dynamics of dissimilation -- Franz Rosenzweig and Else Lasker-Schuler -- Toward the present and the future -- Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Honigmann.…”
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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Women and the story of romantic love -- The odd couple: mating Jane Austen with D. …”
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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Women and the story of romantic love -- The odd couple: mating Jane Austen with D. …”
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Marriage dissolution in Singapore revisiting family values and ideology in marriage / by Straughan, Paulin Tay

Table of Contents: “…Overview of divorce in contemporary Singapore : taking stock -- Choosing the right one : romantic love, courtship and marriage preparation -- What dreams are made of : role of ideology in marriage and divorce -- The time bind : work and family interface -- Looking ahead : the future of family.…”
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Marriage dissolution in Singapore revisiting family values and ideology in marriage / by Straughan, Paulin Tay

Table of Contents: “…Overview of divorce in contemporary Singapore : taking stock -- Choosing the right one : romantic love, courtship and marriage preparation -- What dreams are made of : role of ideology in marriage and divorce -- The time bind : work and family interface -- Looking ahead : the future of family.…”
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Understanding Nationalism On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Bush -- Sacrificial nationalism and its victims : sin and death in Germany and India -- Romantic love and the end of nationalism : Walt Whitman and Emma Goldman.…”
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Understanding Nationalism : On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Bush -- Sacrificial nationalism and its victims : sin and death in Germany and India -- Romantic love and the end of nationalism : Walt Whitman and Emma Goldman.…”
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