Romantic Love in America
Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3869-5 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3869-5 (ISBN)
In American Lovers, Victor de Munck draws on evolutionary, cognitive, and social theories to present a cultural model of romantic love. de Munck draws on interviews with gay, straight, and polyamorous individuals to provide insight into the core components and intricate variability of contemporary love.
American Lovers: A Study of Romantic Love, Gender, and Sexuality introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of fifteen people: two are polyamorous, five are gay, and eight are straight. Coupled with rich interview material, this book provides a guided tour through the variable geography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. Victor de Muck describes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural and “style” theories of romantic love and sex, concluding with a generic American cultural model of romantic love that importantly delves into its relational properties as a dyad.
American Lovers: A Study of Romantic Love, Gender, and Sexuality introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of fifteen people: two are polyamorous, five are gay, and eight are straight. Coupled with rich interview material, this book provides a guided tour through the variable geography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. Victor de Muck describes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural and “style” theories of romantic love and sex, concluding with a generic American cultural model of romantic love that importantly delves into its relational properties as a dyad.
Victor de Munck is professor in the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University and Vytautas Magnus University.
Chapter 1: Defining Romantic Love vis-a-vis Sex and Love
Chapter 2: How Social and Evolutionary Factors Affect the Cultural Importance of RL
Chapter 3: A Tripod Theory of RL and Other Theories
Chapter 4: Interviews with Straight Women
Chapter 5: Interviews with Straight Men
Chapter 6: Interviews with Nonbinary Lesbian/Gay Women
Chapter 7: Interviews with Nonbinary Gay Men
Chapter 8: Interviews with Polyamorous Informants
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 562 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-3869-X / 149853869X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-3869-5 / 9781498538695 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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