In what ways and why are norms, practices and forms of love changing in contemporary liberal democracies? Flashcards
For what do Morrison, Johnson and Longhurst (2013) argue?
For a greater consideration of love within social and cultural geography
What are the three areas that need to be considered in this essay/
The couple and marriage
Morality and discourse
Dating
Who is the big guy for the transformation of the couple?
Giddens 1992
Even though this essay will argue that the manifestations of love are changing, what does who argue?
Berlant 2012 - even as the manifestation of love changes, people still ahem enduring attachment to it
What Gidden’s idea of confluent love?
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.
When is a relationship a pure relationship?
When it continues to meet both partner’s emotional and sexual needs, as long as both are getting something from it
What does Gidden’s say about women’s rights?
That they, particularly in the private sphere, have reached new highs at the turn of the century
Who critiques Giddens?
Jamieson 1999
What is the critique of Jamieson
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.
What is testament to the extent that people desire marriage?
Legalisation of gay marriage by a conservative government
Despite its legalisation for homosexuals, what is there still within marriage?
An assumption of heterosexuality, that it lies on a normalised trajectory within a heterosexual relationship.
In relation to marriage, what decline must also be considered?
The decline in religion and rise in secularism/
Who argue that love is a patriarchal affect?
Firestone 1972; de Beauvoir 1972
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?
A movement of people who want to extend it further
For Berlant when, even though love’s manifestation is changing significantly what endures/
The continued attachment people have to it despite numerous occasions when it has failed to deliver.
In the discourse and moral paragraph, what is it useful to draw upon
The public private dichotomy (See Habermas )
Who looks, in 1993, at the differences in space between the public and private spheres?
Valentine
As well as Valentine, who else sees space to be heterosexualised?
Oswin 2008
Apart from Oswin 2008, what is the other article relevernt from the same author?
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)
For the final section on dating practices, what can be argued?
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.
What are two examples of new forms of online dating
Private school dating -> Toffee
gender reversal -> bumble
What is the first capitalist transformation
The spaces of cities. When women moved in, privacy lost, so dance hall became a thing
Who says that dating replaced calling?
Illouz 1993
What cannot be viewed as separate?
consumer culture and dating apps
