CHOLLET Mona.
Reinventing love: How patriarchy sabotages heterosexual relationships.
The discovery
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| N° d'inventaire | 25032 |
| Format | 140 x 200 mm |
| Détails | 272 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782355221743 |
Many women and men seeking romantic fulfillment together find themselves at a loss when it comes to the third protagonist who invites himself into their living room or bed: patriarchy. This book offers a series of insights into a question that has haunted feminists for decades and is now back at the forefront of their concerns: that of heterosexual love.
At the heart of our romantic comedies, of our representations of the ideal couple, is often encoded a form of feminine inferiority, suggesting that women must choose between full self-expression and happiness in love. The social conditioning suffered by each, which persuades men that everything is owed to them, while valuing self-denial and devotion in women, and undermining their self-confidence, produces power imbalances that can culminate in physical and psychological violence. Even the attitude that each is pushed to adopt towards love, with women learning to (over?) value it and men to deny it a central place in their lives, prepares relationships that can only be unhappy. On the sexual level, finally, male fantasies continue to saturate the space of desire: how can women regain a gaze and a voice?
At the heart of our romantic comedies, of our representations of the ideal couple, is often encoded a form of feminine inferiority, suggesting that women must choose between full self-expression and happiness in love. The social conditioning suffered by each, which persuades men that everything is owed to them, while valuing self-denial and devotion in women, and undermining their self-confidence, produces power imbalances that can culminate in physical and psychological violence. Even the attitude that each is pushed to adopt towards love, with women learning to (over?) value it and men to deny it a central place in their lives, prepares relationships that can only be unhappy. On the sexual level, finally, male fantasies continue to saturate the space of desire: how can women regain a gaze and a voice?
At the heart of our romantic comedies, of our representations of the ideal couple, is often encoded a form of feminine inferiority, suggesting that women must choose between full self-expression and happiness in love. The social conditioning suffered by each, which persuades men that everything is owed to them, while valuing self-denial and devotion in women, and undermining their self-confidence, produces power imbalances that can culminate in physical and psychological violence. Even the attitude that each is pushed to adopt towards love, with women learning to (over?) value it and men to deny it a central place in their lives, prepares relationships that can only be unhappy. On the sexual level, finally, male fantasies continue to saturate the space of desire: how can women regain a gaze and a voice?