TY - GEN AU - Stanislava, Dikova (ed.) AU - McMahon, Wendy (ed.) AU - Savage, Jordan (ed.) TI - Love and the politics of intimacy: Bodies, boundaries, liberation SN - 978-1501387371 U1 - 306.7 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - love KW - social aspects KW - intimacy KW - psychology KW - emotions KW - political aspects N1 - Recommended by: Tatsita Mishra (FPM); Content: • Part 1 Love and communities • 1 'Love is a battle, love is a war': James Baldwin's use of love to represent race, gender and sexuality in segregated America 2 Liberating the Victorian politics of love through Jack the Lass and Anne Lister 3 The lover and the tribe 4 A love letter to white friends Part 2 Intimate bodies 5 The sharper end of love: When sex is painful, how is intimate love navigated? Reflections from a qualitative study in England and France 6 Kathy Acker's voice in Blood and Guts in High School and Deleuze and Guattari's 'desiring-machines' 7 Digital love: Love through the screen/of the screen 8 #BlackLove and dating sites: A South African perspective of cyber-love and cyber-ethics during Covid-19 Part 3 Love's boundaries • 9 Imploding fireworks: Love and self-knowledge in the contemporary Italian sentimental novel • 10 Lovespeak, love novels and the onset of modernity 11 Love as theoretical object in Marguerite Duras's writings • 12 Love without object • 13 Post-humanism and the road to castle ER -