Women and Gendered Discourses about Love: Towards a “Confluent Love” or a Return to the “Romantic Love” Myth?
The role of love in intimacy dynamics is undeniable in occidental societies, being one of the central elements of social life. The argument that love constitutes the engine of interpersonal relations development, especially for women, represents a basic issue in the construction of social discour...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2007-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/1475 |
| Summary: | The role of love in intimacy dynamics is undeniable in occidental societies, being one
of the central elements of social life. The argument that love constitutes the engine of interpersonal
relations development, especially for women, represents a basic issue in the construction of
social discourses about human being happiness and the factors that configure it. Traditionally
seen as feminine, love has been pointed to women as its supreme vocation (Beauvoir, 1976)
entangling them, not quite often, in an ideal of privacy potentially castrating of its autonomy and
personal freedom. This article intends to critically reflect on the implications of social construction
of discourses about love in feminine heterosexual adult intimacy, from a critical feminist point of
view. This paper discusses the importance to assume love discourses as egalitarian and
democratic. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-026X 1806-9584 |