Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'

1. Introduction; Julia Carter and Lorena Arocha.
Part I: The Great Transformation of Love.2. Intimate Relationships and Choice in a time of 'Cold Intimacies': Examining Illouz; Rachel Thwaites.3. Making up and breaking up: The changing commitments of age-dissimilar couples; Lara McKenzie.4. The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts; Julia Carter and Daniel Smith.
Part II: Sexual Abundance and Emotional Inequalities.5. "I would like to be better at it" a critical engagement with Illouz's account of men and intimacy in romantic relationships; Fiona McQueen and Sharani Osborne.6. Swipe right? Tinder, commitment and the commercialization of intimate life; Jenny van Hooff.7. Dating in the age of Tinder: swiping for love?; Lauren Palmer.
Part III: Women's Exclusivist Strategies.8. Wretched? Women's Questions of Love and Labour in the People's Republic of China; Alison Lamont.9. Chasing happiness: The role of marriage in the aspiration of success among China's middle class women; Kailing Xie.10. "I entered this life because my husband left me, I have to be careful now" A study of domesticity, intimacy and belonging in the lives of women in sex work in a red-light area in Eastern India; Mirna Guha.
Part IV: 'From Romantic Fantasy to Disappointment'.11. 'Utterly heart-breaking and devastating': Couple relationships and intensive parenting culture in a time of 'cold intimacies'; Charlotte Faircloth.- 12. "I wanted a happy ever after life" Love, romance and disappointment in heterosexual single mothers' intimacy scripts; Charlotte Morris.- 13. The affective politics of progress narratives: women talking about equality in heterosexual relationships; Raisa Jurva.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030292584
• ISBN13: 9783030292584
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"