Stanislava, Dikova (ed.) <br/><br/>
Love and the politics of intimacy: Bodies, boundaries, liberation 

 - New York:  Bloomsbury Academic,  2023. 
 - xv, 243p., note., bib., ind., 23 cm X 16 cm 
<br/><br/> Recommended by: Tatsita Mishra (FPM) 
<br/><br/> Content:<br/><br/>•	Part 1 Love and communities<br/>•	1 'Love is a battle, love is a war': James Baldwin's use of love to represent race, gender and sexuality in segregated America<br/>2 Liberating the Victorian politics of love through Jack the Lass and Anne Lister<br/>3 The lover and the tribe<br/>4 A love letter to white friends<br/>Part 2 Intimate bodies <br/>5 The sharper end of love: When sex is painful, how is intimate love navigated? Reflections from a qualitative study in England and France<br/>6 Kathy Acker's voice in Blood and Guts in High School and Deleuze and Guattari's 'desiring-machines'<br/>7 Digital love: Love through the screen/of the screen<br/>8 #BlackLove and dating sites: A South African perspective of cyber-love and cyber-ethics during Covid-19<br/>Part 3 Love's boundaries<br/>•	9 Imploding fireworks: Love and self-knowledge in the contemporary Italian sentimental novel<br/>•	10 Lovespeak, love novels and the onset of modernity 11 Love as theoretical object in Marguerite Duras's writings<br/>•	12 Love without object<br/>•	13 Post-humanism and the road to castle <br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1501387371 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--love--social aspects--intimacy--psychology--emotions--political aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.7