A vindication of love : reclaiming romance for the Twenty-first century by Nehring, Cristina instant download

A vindication of love : reclaiming romance for the Twenty-first century by Nehring, Cristina instant download

viii, 328 pages ; 22 cm, \"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, Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index, Introduction: Women in love -- Cupid doffs his blindfold : love as wisdom -- The power of power differentials : love as inequality -- The blade between us : love as transgression -- We must be two before we can be one : love as absence -- On my blood I'll carry you away : love as heroism -- Anonymous except for injury : love as failure -- Carving in the flesh : love as art -- Epilogue: Waging love : toward a new definition of eros