reading the romance women patriarchy and popular literature

Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980. Love and Ideology in the Afternoon: Soap Opera, Women and Television Genre. Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. 「 Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication.」 Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy. Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies. 「The Changing Balance of Power between the Sexes in Ancient Rome.」 In his On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge.

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. 「The Erotic Sphere.」 From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. 「Love and the Novel.」「Private Experience and the Novel.」 The Rise of the Novel. 「The Sociology of Love」 in his The Sociological Worldview. 「Introduction,」「The Institutional Matrix,」「The Act of Reading the Romance.」 3-45 86-118. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. 「Government by Love.」 Revolutions of the Heart: Gender, Power ad the Delusions of Love. 「Interview Five: From the Transformation of Intimacy to Life Politics.」 In their Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity.

Giddens, Anthony and Christopher Pierson.

The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 「The Emergence of Life Politics.」 In his Modernity and Self-ldentity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. 「Love.」 The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Edited by Paul Heelas, Scott Lash and Paul Morris. 「Individualization and 『Precarious Freedoms』: Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Orientated Sociology.」 Detraditionalization.

Beck, Ulrich and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.

「Part II.」 Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Topics must be approved by the instructor beforehand. Final papers must be done in English according to all scholarly requirements (10-15 pages). There will be a mid-term paper required, which deals with one aspect of romantic love in the Taiwanese or Chinese context (written in Chinese, 3000 to 5000 words). Students are required to keep up with weekly readings, make oral presentations in class, and participate in class discussions. This is a seminar that investigates the transformation of romantic love within the modernist dynamic, in other words, a socio-historical study of the changing meaning and significance of romantic love in the modern age.

Reading the romance women patriarchy and popular literature