<p>"Senior international scholar Ann Brooks delivers a valuable contribution to the fast-growing areas of critical love studies and sociology of emotions with this interdisciplinary look at love. Her cutting-edge survey of current research provides a âstate-of-the-fieldâ framework examining relationships, globalization, todayâs online culture, and more. A masterly synthesis!"</p><p><strong>Catherine M. Roach</strong>, Professor of Gender and Culture Studies, University of Alabama; Author of <i>Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture,</i> and the novels <i>Master of Love</i> and <i>Knight of Love</i>. </p><p>"The scope and diversity of scholarship on love and intimacy can be daunting, but Ann Brooksâs <i>Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society: Love in an International Context</i> offers an accessible, richly informative introduction. Anyone interested in real-life love and / or its media representations will find much to learn."</p><p><strong>Eric Murphy Selinger</strong>, Professor of English at DePaul University; Editor of the <i>Journal of Popular Romance Studies</i>, author of <i>What Is It Then Between Us? Traditions of Love in American Poetry,</i> and co-editor of <i>Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom.</i></p>
<p>"Senior international scholar Ann Brooks delivers a valuable contribution to the fast-growing areas of critical love studies and sociology of emotions with this interdisciplinary look at love. Her cutting-edge survey of current research provides a âstate-of-the-fieldâ framework examining relationships, globalization, todayâs online culture, and more. A masterly synthesis!"</p><p><strong>Catherine M. Roach</strong>, Professor of Gender and Culture Studies, University of Alabama; Author of <i>Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture,</i> and the novels <i>Master of Love</i> and <i>Knight of Love</i>. </p><p>"The scope and diversity of scholarship on love and intimacy can be daunting, but Ann Brooksâs <i>Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society: Love in an International Context</i> offers an accessible, richly informative introduction. Anyone interested in real-life love and / or its media representations will find much to learn."</p><p><strong>Eric Murphy Selinger</strong>, Professor of English at DePaul University; Editor of the <i>Journal of Popular Romance Studies</i>, author of <i>What Is It Then Between Us? Traditions of Love in American Poetry,</i> and co-editor of <i>Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom.</i></p>
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Biographical note
Ann Brooks is a Visiting Professor at the Australian Catholic University in 2018-2020. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Her latest books are Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacy and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity (2017) and Women, Politics and the Public Sphere (2019).