Love

<p>This unique timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investigates love historically in order to understand changing ideologies representations and practices. The essays range from studies of particular representations and examples of love - feminist translation mass media images and internet love blogs - to feminist theories of love and marriage to ethical and political theories describing critiquing or advocating the use of love in groups as a radical force. They break new ground in bringing together questions of gendered interests in love temporal dimensions of loving practices and the politics of love in radical transformations of society.</p>