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Modern Love : Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis.
"My ideas of romance came from the movies," said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies--as well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help books--that David Shumway turns for his history of modern love. Modern Love argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "My ideas of romance came from the movies," said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies--as well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help books--that David Shumway turns for his history of modern love. Modern Love argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss. Over the course of the twentieth century, partly in response to this crisis, a new language of love--"intimacy"--Emerged, not so much replacing bu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (283 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814783535 0814783538 1417588365 9781417588367 |