The End of Love? Sex, Romance, and Love in Times of Neoliberalism

Seminar Readings

Ilouz, Eva, The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 3-26.

Cooper, Melinda, Family Values : Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (New York: Zone Books, 2017), chapter 1

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Further Readings

Albury, Kath, 'Porn and Sex Education, Porn as Sex Educatio', Porn Studies 1, 1/2 (2014): 172-181.

Ambert, Anne-Marie, Divorce: Facts, Causes, and Consquences (Ottawa: Vanier Instistiute of the Family, 2005).

Attwood, Feona, 'Sexed Up: Theorizing the Sexualisation of Culture', Sexualities 9, 1 (2006): 77-94.

ibid. (ed.) Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualisation of Western Culture (London, 2009).

Ball, Stephen, Neolibearlism and eEarly childhood education: Market, Imaginaries and Governance.

Bandinelli, Carolina, Dating Apps: Towards Post-Romantic Love in Digital Societies, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22,8 (2022): 905-919.

Bauman, Zygmunt, Liquid Life (Cambridge, Malden, 2005).

Beck Ulrich, and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Individualisation, Institutionalizatied Individualism, and Its Social and Political Consquences (London, 2002).

Ibid, The Chaos of Love. Translated by Mark Ritter and Jane Wiebel (Cambridge; Polity Press, 1995).

Bell, Leslie C. Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom (Berkely, 2013)

Bernstein, Elizabeth, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (Chicago, 2007).

Bogle, Kathleen A. Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York, 2008).

Brown, Wendy, States of Inquiry: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995)

Featherstone, Mike, 'The Body in Consumer Culture', in The American Body in Context: An Anhology (reprint) Wilmington. 2001)

Featherstone, Mike. Ibid. Consumer Culture and Postmodernity (London, 1991).

Feher, Michael, 'Self-Appreciation: Or, the Aspirations of Human Capital', Public Culture 21, 1 (2009): 79-102.

Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, Introduction.

Giddens, Anthony, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society (Cambridge, 1992)

Gill Rosalind and Christina Scharff eds., New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Subjectivity (New. York, 2011)

Gillis, John R., For Better, for Worse. British Marriages, 1600 to the Present (New York/Oxford, 1985).

Hobs, Mitchell et al, 'Liquid Love? Dating apps, Sex, Relationships and the Digital Transformation of Intimacy', Journal of Sociology 53,3:

Hochschild, Arlie Russel, The Commerzialisation of Intimiate Life. Notes from Home and Work (Berkely, 2003).

Ibid, The Managed Heart: Commercialisation of Human Feeling (Berkely, 2012).

Illouz, Eva, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism (Cambridge, 2007).

ibid. Emotions as Commodities: Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity (New York, 2018).

Ibid., Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Cambridge, 2012)

Maccafferty, Patricia, 'Forging a 'Neoliberal Pedagogy': The 'Enterprising Education' Agenda in Schools.' Critical Social Policy 30, 4 (2010): 541-563.

Evans, Mary, 'Love in Times of neoliberalism', https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/love-in-time-of-neo-liberalism/

Heenan, Hannah, 'Neoliberalism, Family Law, and the Devaluation of Care', Journal of Law and Society 48,3 (2021): 386-409.

May, Todd, Friendship in the Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism (Langham, 2012).

Rose, Nikolas, Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Cambridge, 1998).

Rottenberg, Catherin, 'The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism', Cultural Studies 28,3 (2014): 418-437.

Royle, C. V, Love in the Time of Thatcherism: British Neoliberalism and Contemporary Romantic Love Narratives. Doctoral thesis in Philosophy, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3399668Link opens in a new window

Weeks, Jeffrey, Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainties (New York, 1995).