Beschreibung:
In Romantic Love in America, Victor C. de Munck draws on evolutionary, cognitive, and social theories to present a cultural model of romantic love. de Munck draws on interviews with gay, straight, and polyamorous individuals to provide insight into the core components and intricate variability of contemporary love.
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 interview material, Victor C. de Munck provides a guided tour through the variable geography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. de Munck describes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural theories of romantic love and sex, concluding with an American cultural model of romantic love that also includes its relational properties as a dyad.
Chapter 1: Defining Romantic Love vis-a-vis Sex and Love
Chapter 2: How Social and Evolutionary Factors Affect the Cultural Importance of RL
Chapter 3: A Tripod Theory of RL and Other Theories
Chapter 4: Interviews with Straight Women
Chapter 5: Interviews with Straight Men
Chapter 6: Interviews with Nonbinary Lesbian/Gay Women
Chapter 7: Interviews with Nonbinary Gay Men
Chapter 8: Interviews with Polyamorous Informants