1st Edition
Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society Love in an International Context
Foreword by Hsu-Ming Teo
Introduction
Chapter 1. Love in a Globalized World
Chapter 2. Diversity and Intimacy in Contemporary Society
Chapter 3. Being Young and in Love
Chapter 4. Modern Romance
Chapter 5. Love in the Movies
Chapter 6. Love and Intimacy in Marriage
Chapter 7. Adultery, Love and Social Networking
Chapter 8. New Technology, Intimacy and Work
Chapter 9. The Commercialization of Intimacy
Conclusion
Biography
Ann Brooks is a Visiting Professor at the Australian Catholic University in 2018-2020. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Her latest books are Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacy and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity (2017) and Women, Politics and the Public Sphere (2019).
"Senior international scholar Ann Brooks delivers a valuable contribution to the fast-growing areas of critical love studies and sociology of emotions with this interdisciplinary look at love. Her cutting-edge survey of current research provides a ‘state-of-the-field’ framework examining relationships, globalization, today’s online culture, and more. A masterly synthesis!"
Catherine M. Roach, Professor of Gender and Culture Studies, University of Alabama; Author of Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture, and the novels Master of Love and Knight of Love.
"The scope and diversity of scholarship on love and intimacy can be daunting, but Ann Brooks’s Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society: Love in an International Context offers an accessible, richly informative introduction. Anyone interested in real-life love and / or its media representations will find much to learn."
Eric Murphy Selinger, Professor of English at DePaul University; Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, author of What Is It Then Between Us? Traditions of Love in American Poetry, and co-editor of Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom.
