In what ways and why are norms, practices and forms of love changing in contemporary liberal democracies?

Question 1

For what do Morrison, Johnson and Longhurst (2013) argue?

Answer 1

For a greater consideration of love within social and cultural geography

Question 2

What are the three areas that need to be considered in this essay/

Answer 2

The couple and marriage
Morality and discourse
Dating

Question 3

Who is the big guy for the transformation of the couple?

Answer 3

Giddens 1992

Question 4

Even though this essay will argue that the manifestations of love are changing, what does who argue?

Answer 4

Berlant 2012 - even as the manifestation of love changes, people still ahem enduring attachment to it

Question 5

What Gidden’s idea of confluent love?

Answer 5

Love is based on mutual respect. As long as relationship is beneficial for the individuals the relationship will continue, but if it ceases to be then there is no obligation to stay in it.

Question 6

When is a relationship a pure relationship?

Answer 6

When it continues to meet both partner’s emotional and sexual needs, as long as both are getting something from it

Question 7

What does Gidden’s say about women’s rights?

Answer 7

That they, particularly in the private sphere, have reached new highs at the turn of the century

Question 8

Who critiques Giddens?

Answer 8

Jamieson 1999

Question 9

What is the critique of Jamieson

Answer 9

Giddens has no empirical evidence. He emphasises a broad enlightenment sense of progress. None of this can be seen as independent from the rise of neoliberalism, in that it emphasises the individual over the collective within the relationship.

Question 10

What is testament to the extent that people desire marriage?

Answer 10

Legalisation of gay marriage by a conservative government

Question 11

Despite its legalisation for homosexuals, what is there still within marriage?

Answer 11

An assumption of heterosexuality, that it lies on a normalised trajectory within a heterosexual relationship.

Question 12

In relation to marriage, what decline must also be considered?

Answer 12

The decline in religion and rise in secularism/

Question 13

Who argue that love is a patriarchal affect?

Answer 13

Firestone 1972; de Beauvoir 1972

Question 14

Even though love, and the idea that marriage is its ultimate site of realisation, is viewed by some to be a patriarchal intimation, what is there still?

Answer 14

A movement of people who want to extend it further

Question 15

For Berlant when, even though love’s manifestation is changing significantly what endures/

Answer 15

The continued attachment people have to it despite numerous occasions when it has failed to deliver.

Question 16

In the discourse and moral paragraph, what is it useful to draw upon

Answer 16

The public private dichotomy (See Habermas )

Question 17

Who looks, in 1993, at the differences in space between the public and private spheres?

Answer 17

Valentine

Question 18

As well as Valentine, who else sees space to be heterosexualised?

Answer 18

Oswin 2008

Question 19

Apart from Oswin 2008, what is the other article relevernt from the same author?

Answer 19

The difference between the public and private sphere in Singapore, between the discourse of government and the actions in law (sodomy still illegal, but their pink dot celebration (pride kind of thing) still gets loads of people)

Question 20

For the final section on dating practices, what can be argued?

Answer 20

Integrating neoliberlaism to argue that it is the rise of capitalism and consumerism that both originally transformed dating away from calling, and that provoked the latest change toward online dating.

Question 21

What are two examples of new forms of online dating

Answer 21

Private school dating -> Toffee

gender reversal -> bumble

Question 22

What is the first capitalist transformation

Answer 22

The spaces of cities. When women moved in, privacy lost, so dance hall became a thing

Question 23

Who says that dating replaced calling?

Answer 23

Illouz 1993

Question 24

What cannot be viewed as separate?

Answer 24

consumer culture and dating apps

Question 25

What is the juxtaposition within dating apps

Answer 25

The idea that it is all about chance, whilst algorithms are used to determine the likelihood of that chance

Question 26

What has reversed surrounding with knowledge surrounding online dating?

Answer 26

Before, knowledge would come after a connection. Now it comes after a connection.

Question 27

On online dating, people behave somewhere between what two things?

Answer 27

Shoppers and gamers

Question 28

Building on the idea of online dating, what does Bauman say in his thesis liquid love?

Answer 28

That modernity is eroding the sanctity of love

Question 29

Who presents a critique of Bauman?

Answer 29

Hobbs et al 2017

Question 30

What is Hobbs’ 2017 view of love and modernity>

Answer 30

actually enhancing love, the negative aspects have been overstretched.

Question 31

What three transformations does Hobbs locate?

Answer 31

1) removal of sex from its reproductive function
2) Personal sphere transformed with first wave feminism
3) Monogamy eroded

Question 32

Who speaks more about monogamy?

Answer 32

Hoof 2017

Question 33

For Hoof 2017, why is monogamy still naturalised and reproduced by society?

Answer 33

Because sex is discursively located as special

Question 34

How does Hoof 2017 quality their statement about monogamy?

Answer 34

Society has become more and more fascinated with the non-monogamous, Hoof cites Anna Kerenina as an early example but need also to consider documentaries such as Lousi Theoroux.

Question 35

What is the citation for dating being down to the chaining organisation of cities, beyond Illouz 1993?

Answer 35

Giddens 1992