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Laurie Essig is Professor and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College. She is the author of American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection. Essig has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, näytä lisää Salon, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and she blogs regularly for Ms. Magazine. näytä vähemmän

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Absolutely fascinating stuff about the relationship between capitalism and our modern and highly-scripted conception of romance.

Also if I get married it'll be for less than $200
 
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hatingongodot | 1 muu arvostelu | May 3, 2020 |
This book presents a cursory and incomplete analysis of selected U.S. sociological trends related to "romance," posited here as a capitalist construct to distract people from collective action via a private future of "happily ever after." There are some interesting ideas in this book--for example, that one of the strengths of Disney films is that they offer heterosexual men a model for expressing love and other emotions--but the author's methodology leaves me cold. It feels like she cherry picks specific examples (the Twilight series of books/films or elaborate recorded marriage proposals) rather than providing a thorough survey of the romance landscape. Her sample sizes for interviews are tiny which does not inspire confidence. Not recommended.

A far better book about this topic is Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel, which has the breadth and depth that Love, Inc. lacks (and the author does not even reference Weigel's work, which implies a poor literature review).
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