Romantic Love in America

Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships

Victor C. De Munck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498538718 (ISBN)

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In Romantic Love in America, Victor C. de Munck draws on evolutionary, cognitive, and social theories to present a cultural model of romantic love. de Munck draws on interviews with gay, straight, and polyamorous individuals to provide insight into the core components and intricate variability of contemporary love.

Romantic Love in America: Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of two polyamorous,five gay, and eight straight individuals. Coupled with rich interviewmaterial, Victor C. de Munck provides a guided tour through the variablegeography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. de Munckdescribes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural theoriesof romantic love and sex, concluding with an American cultural model ofromantic love that also includes its relational properties as a dyad.

Victor de Munck is professor in the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University and State University of New York at New Paltz.

Chapter 1: Defining Romantic Love vis-a-vis Sex and Love
Chapter 2: How Social and Evolutionary Factors Affect the Cultural Importance of RL
Chapter 3: A Tripod Theory of RL and Other Theories
Chapter 4: Interviews with Straight Women
Chapter 5: Interviews with Straight Men
Chapter 6: Interviews with Nonbinary Lesbian/Gay Women
Chapter 7: Interviews with Nonbinary Gay Men
Chapter 8: Interviews with Polyamorous Informants

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 219 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781498538718 / 9781498538718
Zustand	Neuware