Revolutions of the Heart
Gender, Power and the Delusions of Love
- Price: $160.00
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Pages: 192
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 13th May 1999
- ISBN: 978-0-415-16297-5
About the Book
What happens when we fall in love? Why do we do it? Should we ever trust the 'language of the heart'? Why does love go wrong? Can love relationships ever be truly equal?
In this challenging and highly original book, Wendy Langford dispels some of the mystery surrounding romantic love and presents a compelling explanation for why it does not give us what we desire. Love
appears to be liberating because it arises in resistance to all that our social conditioning has led us to become and gives a glimpse of a radically different way of being in the world. But love is fuelled by unconscious compulsions which turn revolution into counter-revolution - the 'rebecoming' of all that we meant to leave behind.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1: Government by Love 2: Romantic Transformations 3: Analysing Love 4: Everybody's Mummy 5: The Daughter's Submission 6: Dialectics of Love 7: Misguided Revolutions Appendix Bibliography Index
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