Romantic Love in America: Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships

Victor C. de Munck

doi:10.5771/9781498538701

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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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-3869-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-3870-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 230
Product Type: Monograph

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