Consuming the romantic utopia : love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism
Eva Illouz (Author)
In this study of American love in the 20th century, the author unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism
Print Book, English, 1997
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997
xv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520202757, 9780520205710, 9780585054261, 0520202759, 0520205715, 0585054266
33282143
Introduction to the Sociology of Love
Ch. 1. Constructing the Romantic Utopia
Ch. 2. Trouble in Utopia
Ch. 3. From the Romantic Utopia to the American Dream
Ch. 4. An All-Consuming Love
Ch. 5. Real Fictions and Fictional Realities
Ch. 6. Reason within Passion
Ch. 7. The Reasons for Passion
Ch. 8. The Class of Love
Conclusion: A Happy Ending?
App. 1. A Few Words about Methods
App. 2. Questionnaire
App. 3. Images of Romance