1st Edition
Emotionality Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What is Love
Lust or Love: Confluent vs. Romantic Love
2. The Love Continuum
Pre-Personal Relationship
Semi-Personal Relationship
Personal Relationship and the Process of Emotional Development
Romantic Jealousy
Guilt and Shame
Anger
Altruistic Love
Realisation of Love
Conclusion
From Confluent to Romantic Love
Index
Biography
Eirini Arvanitaki received her PhD from the University of Hull, UK. Since then, she has taught at the University of Hull, the University of Liverpool, UK, the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece, and the University of Cyprus. Currently, she is teaching at the Hellenic Open University (School of Social Sciences). She has served as an Evaluator Expert of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships and has participated in several EU-funded projects. Her research interests lie in the fields of gender, sociology, social policy, popular romance fiction, gender studies, feminism, cultural sociology, and English literature. She is the author of Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance (Routledge) and a co-editor of three books on pay gap between genders and working women and motherhood.
