Description: Contradictions of Love : Towards a Feminist-Realist Ontology of Sociosexuality, Paperback by Gunnarsson, Lena, ISBN 1138904627, ISBN-13 9781138904620, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Th 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. This book is a unique and timely contribution in the field of feminist theory, in that it offers the first elaborate assessment and development of Jónasdóttir’s important but relatively sidestepped work, and in that it counters poststructuralist trends from the point of view of a robust critical realist framework that has hitherto been spectacularly absent in feminist theory, although it offers solutions to metatheoretical problems at the forefront of feminist debates; in the field of critical realism broadly defined, in that it elaborates on crucial ontological themes of (dialectical) critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality via a discussion of the issues of love, sexuality, gender and power; and finally, in the field of love studies, in that it offers a sophisticated account of how gender asymmetries prevail in love despite norms of gender equality and reciprocity, and in that it reconciles feminist, conflict-oriented perspectives on love with notions of love as transcending conflict.
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Book Title: Contradictions of Love : Towards a Feminist-Realist Ontology of S
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Contradictions of Love : Towards a Feminist-Realist Ontology of Sociosexuality
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Author: Lena Gunnarsson
Subject Area: Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 6.1 in
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
