Revolutions of the heart : gender, power, and the delusions of love / Wendy Langford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langford, Wendy, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Man-woman relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book looks at how heterosexual relationships really work. Author?? argues that the process of falling in love is just a brief holiday from the gender roles which quickly reassert themselves in their old forms. Topics covered include romantic love, the problem of desire and the trouble with love.

Contents:

Cover; REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEART; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Government by love; The rise of the passionate couple; A diminishing life in chains; The demoralisation of love; The political economy of love; Concrete love; Different but equal?; The language of the heart; The path of freedom?; Summary and conclusion; 2 Romantic transformations; Looking for a change; Single dissatisfactions; Writing herself into love; Risking it all; The saved and the damned; Another time, another place; True love at last; Summary and conclusion; 3 Analysing love

Freudian transformationsLosing herself; Finding herself; Women who could do anything; Men who were not men; Gender, love and the 'missing self'; The trouble with love; Summary and conclusion; 4 Everybody's mummy; The abandonment; She's so demanding; Holding it all together; The power puzzle; Good boys, bad boys; Maternal compensations; Mummy's Boy; The counter-revolution part 1: his story; Summary and conclusion; 5 The daughter's submission; The power of silence; The power of evasion; 'Rational' man/'emotional' woman; Power of the fathers; Feeling 'so small'; Self-objectification

Self-silencingDaddy's Girl; The counter-revolution part 2: her story; Summary and conclusion; 6 Dialectics of love; Twisted bonds; He couldn't even see it; But he said he loved me; The security paradox; Breaking the spell; Love and love's untwisting; Summary and conclusion; 7 Misguided revolutions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-163) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-71466-1

0-203-27433-4

0-203-05310-9

1-280-32992-0

1-134-71467-X

9780203053102

OCLC:

808008762