(Ebook) The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality by Lena Gunnarson ISBN 9780415824118, 9781138904620, 9781315851464, 0415824117, 1138904627, 1315851466

(Ebook) The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality by Lena Gunnarson ISBN 9780415824118, 9781138904620, 9781315851464, 0415824117, 1138904627, 1315851466

The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality offers a robust and multifaceted theoretical account of how, in contemporary western societies, women continue to be subordinated to men through sexual love. The book defends and elaborates Anna G. Jónasdóttir’s thesis that men tend to exploit women of their ‘love power’, by means of an innovative application of critical realism, dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality. Gunnarsson also offers a critique of the state of affairs of contemporary feminist theory.The author demonstrates that the meta-theoretical framework of critical realism offers the tools that can counter the poststructuralist hegemony still prevailing in feminist theory. On a general level, The Contradictions of Love attempts at reconciling theoretical positions which tend to appear in opposition to one another. In particular, it offers a way of bridging the gap between the notion of love as a locus of exploitation and that of love as a force which can conquer oppression.