Love and sex : cross-cultural perspectives
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Love and sex : cross-cultural perspectives
University Press of America, c2005
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Love & sex
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Bibliography: p. 247-271
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Description
In this volume, noted scholars Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson focus on the cross-cultural research concerning the passionate beginnings of relationships: how people meet, fall in love, make love, and fall out of love, usually only to risk it all over again. Through in-depth analysis and astute assessment, they compare the way cultures try to set rules for these incendiary matters. Two main questions addressed are: 'What seems to be biological and universal?' and 'What seems to be socially constructed and transient?' Taking a historical perspective, the authors ask where different societies, and the world itself, are headed?
Table of Contents
1 Preface Chapter 2 The Many Paths to Love Chapter 3 The Romantic, Sexual, and Marital Ideal Chapter 4 Falling in Love Chapter 5 Sex: Then and There Chapter 6 Sex: Here and Now Chapter 7 Passion- For Better of Worse Chapter 8 Breaking Up and Starting Over 9 References 10 Credits 11 Name Index 12 Subject Index
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