Love and Eroticism

by Mike Featherstone

• ISBN13: 9780761962526
• ISBN10: 0761962522
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-20
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life have become sexualized - issues which have become central to the emergence of 'queer' as a new form of gender politics and more general questions of sexual citizenship.Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, this book contains a wide-ranging and accessible set of contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism.Love & Eroticism is simultaneously published as volume 15, issue 3-4 of Theory, Culture & Society.

Table of Contents

Love and Eroticism: An Introduction	1	(19)
Mike Featherstone
On Postmodern Uses of Sex	19	(16)
Zygmunt Bauman
The Sexual Citizen	35	(18)
Jeffrey Weeks
On the Way to a Post-Familial Family -- From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities	53	(18)
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
On the Elementary Forms of the Socioerotic Life	71	(40)
Sasha Weitman
Bohemian Love	111	(18)
Elizabeth Wilson
Otto Gross and Else Jaffe and Max Weber	129	(32)
Sam Whimster with Gottfried Heuer
The Lost Innocence of Love: Romance as a Postmodern Condition	161	(26)
Eva Illouz
Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960s Sexual Revolution	187	(28)
Cas Wouters
Citysex: Representing Lust in Public	215	(28)
Henning Bech
Love and Structure	243	(22)
Charles Lindholm
`Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe': Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture	265	(12)
Mary Evans
Introduction to Georg Simmel's `On the Sociology of the Family'	277	(6)
David Frisby
On the Sociology of the Family	283	(12)
Georg Simmel
Sex and Sociality: Comparative Ethnographies of Sexual Objectification	295	(28)
Laura Rival
Don Slater
Daniel Miller
The Nazi Eye Code of Falling in Love: Bright Eyes, Black Heart, Crazed Gaze	323	(32)
Andrew Travers
`On Me, Not In Me': Locating Affect in Nationalism after AIDS	355	(20)
Cindy Patton
Seductions of the Impossible: Love, the Erotic and Sacrifice in Surrealist Discourse	375	(18)
Michael Richardson
The Lesson of Fire: Notes on Love and Eroticism in Octayio Paz's The Double Flame	393	(12)
Maria Esther Maciel
Love, Gender and Morality	405	(12)
Mike Hepworth
Bodies, Sex and Death	417	(10)
Arthur W. Frank
Index	427