Love, Inc. : dating apps, the big white wedding, and chasing the happily neverafter / Laurie Essig.

By:

Essig, Laurie [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]Description: xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780520295018
9780520300491

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Love, Inc.DDC classification:

152.4/1 23

LOC classification:

BF575.L8 E83 2019

Contents:

Learning to love -- Finding love -- Marry me? -- White weddings -- The honeymoon.

Summary: "The notion of "happily ever after" has been ingrained in many of us since childhood--meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need in life? Laurie Essig invites us to flip our feelings about Romance and see it for what it really is--an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with the fact that we believe we cannot control or affect the societal, economic, and political structures around us. From climate change to nuclear war, white nationalism to the worship of wealth and conspicuous consumption--as the future becomes seemingly less secure, Americans turn away from the public sphere and find shelter in the private. Essig argues that when we do this, we allow Romance to blind us to the real work that needs to be done--building global movements that inspire a change in government policies to address economic and social inequality"--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GSU Library Epoch Non-Fiction Novels	Non-Fiction Novels	NFIC-BF575.L8ESS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		50000005667

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-220) and index.

Learning to love -- Finding love -- Marry me? -- White weddings -- The honeymoon.

"The notion of "happily ever after" has been ingrained in many of us since childhood--meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need in life? Laurie Essig invites us to flip our feelings about Romance and see it for what it really is--an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with the fact that we believe we cannot control or affect the societal, economic, and political structures around us. From climate change to nuclear war, white nationalism to the worship of wealth and conspicuous consumption--as the future becomes seemingly less secure, Americans turn away from the public sphere and find shelter in the private. Essig argues that when we do this, we allow Romance to blind us to the real work that needs to be done--building global movements that inspire a change in government policies to address economic and social inequality"--Provided by publisher.

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