Women and Men in Love

European Identities in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-522-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Reihe: Remapping Cultural History

It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the 1960s when romantic love came to be seen as a universal sentiment that can be found in all cultures in the world. However, there remains the historical problem that the Europeans used this concept of love as a fundamental part of their self-image over a long period (traces of it still remain) and it became very much caught up in the concept of marriage. This book challenges the underlying Eurocentrism of this notion while exploring in a more general sense the connection between identity and emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Passerini, Luisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Forms of Love and Limits of Europeanness: Intentions and Assumptions

PART I: MALE PORTRAITS

Chapter 1. ‘Free Love and Fraternity between the Federated Peoples of Europe’: Giorgio Quartara, Supporter of European Integration and Feminism

Chapter 2. ‘Love Becomes Entangled with Civilisation’: Leo Ferrero, a Young European

PART II: EUROPE'S ROOTS IN LOVE

Chapter 3. Mediterranean Love

Chapter 4. The Heart of Europe: Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont

PART III: CONNECTING JEWISHNESS, EUROPEANNESS AND LOVE

Chapter 5. ‘Between Two Worlds’: Ansky’s Dybbuk in France and Italy

Chapter 6. ‘Notre Mère l’Europe’: Giorgina Levi and Heinz Arian

Primary Sources and Archives

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Passerini, Luisa
Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York.  She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007).

Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York.  She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007).