Talk of Love How Culture Matters

Name: Talk of Love How Culture Matters
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ISBN: 9780226786919

ISBN-10: 0226786919

ISBN-13: 9780226786919

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ann Swidler

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Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler's work is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how the culture of love shapes their expectations and behaviour.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.90" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Culture's Confusions: Who Wrote the Book of Love?



Finding Culture



Repertoires



How Culture Works: Love Stories



Examined and Unexamined Lives



Cultured Capacities and Strategies of Action



Settled and Unsettled Lives



Culture from the Outside in: Love and Marriage



Love and Marriage



Ties That Do Not Bind



Codes, Contexts, and Institutions


Conclusion: How Culture Matters


Methodological Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index