Author: Mary Evans
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: discussion, unromantic, love
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2002-12-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0745620736
ISBN-13: 9780745620732

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of ’true love’ has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more difficult to achieve in the West has begun to attract considerable attention. The consensus is that love is both deeply desirable and extremely difficult to find. This highly original book explores two aspects of the nature of the apparently socially essential ’glue’ of love. The first theme concerns the sources