A vindication of love
Subtitle: reclaiming romance for the 21st century
By: Cristina Nehring.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780060765033
Subjects: Love
Description: "In the twenty-first century, political correctness, cynicism, pragmatism, and the commodification of sex have reduced romantic love to a discredited myth or a recreational sport--"a cause for embarrassment," says Cristina Nehring. In A Vindication of Love, Nehring wrests romantic love from the clutches of cutting-edge capitalists, thrill-seeking convenience shoppers and safe-sex moralists. With help from lovers ranging from Heloise and Abelard to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Nehring celebrates the wild, irreverent, and uncompromising models of love we have inherited--as she rediscovers romantic love's fearless and heroic provenance, and challenges readers to demand partnerships that fully engage body, heart, and mind." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Women in love; title: Cupid doffs his blindfold : love as wisdom; title: The power of power differentials : love as inequality; title: The blade between us : love as transgression; title: We must be two before we can be one : love as absence; title: On my blood I'll carry you away : love as heroism; title: Anonymous except for injury : love as failure; title: Carving in the flesh : love as art; title: Epilogue: Waging love : toward a new definition of eros.