Mary Evans is at the Centre for Women's Studies, Darwin College, University of Kent.

"What's happening to love? In this deeply important, and well crafted book, Evans explores the cultural premises underlying our fantasies about it. Over the last two hundred years in the West, she argues, we have personalized and sexualized love, and unhitched it from marriage. But then we have de-eroticized sex, and unwittingly thinned out the cultural soil which might nurture the bonds we so care to preserve. This is not because we're bad people but because we're swimming around in a culture of love we need to radically rethink."Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California at Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming Commercialization of Intimate Life and Other Essays

• Acknowledgements. Chapter One: What is This Thing Called Love?.Chapter Two: Going Back.Chapter Three: The Language of Love.Chapter Four: The Rules of Love.Chapter Five: The Limits of Love.Chapter Six: The Future of Love.Bibliography.Index

Mary Evans is at the Centre for Women's Studies, Darwin College, University of Kent.

"What's happening to love? In this deeply important, and well crafted book, Evans explores the cultural premises underlying our fantasies about it. Over the last two hundred years in the West, she argues, we have personalized and sexualized love, and unhitched it from marriage. But then we have de-eroticized sex, and unwittingly thinned out the cultural soil which might nurture the bonds we so care to preserve. This is not because we're bad people but because we're swimming around in a culture of love we need to radically rethink."Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California at Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming Commercialization of Intimate Life and Other Essays

• Acknowledgements. Chapter One: What is This Thing Called Love?.Chapter Two: Going Back.Chapter Three: The Language of Love.Chapter Four: The Rules of Love.Chapter Five: The Limits of Love.Chapter Six: The Future of Love.Bibliography.Index

Mary Evans is at the Centre for Women's Studies, Darwin College, University of Kent.

"What's happening to love? In this deeply important, and well crafted book, Evans explores the cultural premises underlying our fantasies about it. Over the last two hundred years in the West, she argues, we have personalized and sexualized love, and unhitched it from marriage. But then we have de-eroticized sex, and unwittingly thinned out the cultural soil which might nurture the bonds we so care to preserve. This is not because we're bad people but because we're swimming around in a culture of love we need to radically rethink."Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California at Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming Commercialization of Intimate Life and Other Essays

• Acknowledgements. Chapter One: What is This Thing Called Love?.Chapter Two: Going Back.Chapter Three: The Language of Love.Chapter Four: The Rules of Love.Chapter Five: The Limits of Love.Chapter Six: The Future of Love.Bibliography.Index