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Romantic Love in America

Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships
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 2019

Summary

Romantic Love in America: Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of two polyamorous,five gay, and eight straight individuals. Coupled with rich interviewmaterial, Victor C. de Munck provides a guided tour through the variablegeography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. de Munckdescribes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural theoriesof romantic love and sex, concluding with an American cultural model ofromantic love that also includes its relational properties as a dyad.

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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3869-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3870-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
230
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Preface No access
  1. Chapter One: Defining Romantic Love vis-à-vis Sex and Love No access Pages 1 - 12
  2. Chapter Two: How Social and Evolutionary Factors Affect the Cultural Importance of RL No access Pages 13 - 22
  3. Chapter Three: A CM of RL and Other Theories No access Pages 23 - 36
  4. Chapter Four: Interviews with Straight Women No access Pages 37 - 82
  5. Chapter Five: Interviews with Straight Men No access Pages 83 - 126
  6. Chapter Six: Interviews with Nonbinary Lesbian/Gay Women No access Pages 127 - 158
  7. Chapter Seven: Interviews with Nonbinary Gay Men No access Pages 159 - 188
  8. Chapter Eight: Interviews with Polyamorous Informants No access Pages 189 - 210
  9. Conclusion: Summary of Findings and the Future of Romantic Love No access Pages 211 - 214
  10. Bibliography No access Pages 215 - 218
  11. Index No access Pages 219 - 228
  12. About the Author No access Pages 229 - 230

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