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Analize 11 2019.Pdf f P a g e | 1 Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies is an on-line, open access, peer- reviewed international journal that aims to bring into the public arena new ideas and findings in the field of gender and feminist studies and to contribute to the gendering of the social, economic, cultural and political discourses and practices about today’s local, national, regional and international realities. Edited by the The Romanian Society for Feminist Analyses AnA, the journal intends to open conversations among eastern and non-eastern feminist researchers on the situated nature of their feminism(s) and to encourage creative and critical feminist debates across multiple axes of signification such as gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, etc. The journal publishes studies, position papers, case studies, viewpoints, book reviews from practitioners of all grades and professions, academics and other specialists on the broad spectrum of gender and feminist studies. © 2018 AnA Society for Feminist Analyses New Series. Issue No. 11 (25)/2018 Website: www.analize-journal.ro Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • New Series • Issue No. 11/ 2018 P a g e | 2 EDITORIAL BOARD Editors: Scientific Committee: Laura Grünberg Adriana Baban University of Bucharest, Romania. Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. Diana Elena Neaga Ionela Băluţă Nicolae Titulescu University, Romania. University of Bucharest, Romania. Valentin Nicolescu Maria Bucur NSPSPA, Romania. Indiana University, USA. Krasimira Daskalova Editorial Secretariat: University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Ana-Maria Despoiu Jasmina Lukić CEU, Hungary. Linguistic Revisions: Mihaela Miroiu Alina Petra Marinescu NSPSPA, Romania. Liliana Popescu Editorial Address: NSPSPA, Romania. 24 Bd. Ferdinand, ap. 11, 021391, Iztok Šori District 2, Bucharest, Romania Peace Institute, Slovenia. [email protected] Mieke Verloo [email protected] University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Enikő Vincze Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. Cover image: Artist Alina Marinescu. Photograph by Cătălin Georgescu. Cover design: Gabriela Mateescu Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • New Series • Issue No. 11/ 2018 P a g e | 3 Table of contents ARTICLES Daniela CUTAȘ (coordinator) Editorial: On Love........................................................................................................................................5 Brook SADLER Love as Emotion and Social Practice: A Feminist Perspective................................................................16 Justin Leonard CLARDY ‘I Don’t Want To be a Playa No More’: An Exploration of the Denigrating Effects of ‘Player’ as a Stereotype Against African American Polyamorous Men......................................................................38 Elizabeth BRAKE Do Subversive Weddings Challenge Amatonormativity? Polyamorous Weddings and Romantic Love Ideals...........................................................................................................................................................61 Oana UIOREAN Love as an Instrument of Oppression: Plato’s Symposium and Contemporary Gender Relations.....................................................................85 Delphine JACOBS and Kristien HENS Love, Neuro-Parenting and Autism: from Individual to Collective Responsibility towards Parents and Children.............................................................................................................................................102 Deidre Nicole GREEN The Freedom to Love: On the Unclaimability of (Maternal) Love.......................................................125 Michelle CIURRIA Falling in Love and Breaking Up: Attribution Bias and the Perception of Responsibility...........................................................................................................................................150 Anca GHEAUȘ Love, not the Family..................................................................................................................................168 Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • New Series • Issue No. 11/ 2018 P a g e | 4 Chiara PIAZZESI, Martin BLAIS, Julie LAVIGNE, Catherine LAVOIE MONGRAIN Contemporary Western Love Narratives and Women in TV Series: A Case Study............................177 Ana Cristina SANTOS Repronormativity and its Others: Queering Parental Love in Times of Culturally Compulsory Reproduction............................................................................................................................................199 Maria Henriete POZSAR, Alina Ioana DUMITRESCU, Denisa PITICAS, Sorana CONSTANTINESCU Dating Apps in the Lives of Young Romanian Women. A Preliminary Study..........................................................................................................................................................216 Heather STEWART Parents of “Pets?” A Defense of Interspecies Parenting and Family Building.....................................................................................................................................................239 BOOK REVIEW Frank ELBERS Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe. Assmuth L., Hakkarainen M., Lulle A., Siim P.M. (coord.). Ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018...............................................................264 Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • New Series • Issue No. 11/ 2018 P a g e | 5 Editorial: On Love Daniela CUTAȘ Umeå University, University of Gothenburg [email protected] What is love? Is it an uncontrollable emotion? Is it, instead, socially shaped, both an emotion and a social practice? Can the bonds of care and affection between humans and non-human animals be said to be on a par with parent-child relationships between humans? Do parents owe love to their children – and do mothers and fathers, respectively, owe it to different degrees? Do subversive weddings challenge normative ideals about love? What is the significance of love for the value of close personal or family relationships? All these questions and more are discussed in the articles included in this special issue. The contributors draw from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, political science, religious studies, and history, as well as from empirical work that they have undertaken in Canada, Belgium, Portugal, or Romania. From these different perspectives and experiences, each contribution addresses important questions about love and its relation to sexuality, monogamy, friendship, the family, parenthood, or society in general. The theme From the balance between moral agency and uptake of responsibility for love’s beginning and its ending (Ciurria 2018), to ambivalence in the face of innovations in ways of looking for love (Pozsar et al 2018), this special issue explores love and its challenges in the contemporary world. Several of the contributions address the way in which love has been used to keep women’s interests subsumed to those of their male partners (Uiorean 2018, Sadler 2018) or those of their children (Jacobs & Hens 2018, Green 2018). This has often been accomplished with the support of the expectation that (heterosexual) romantic love is essential for women’s fulfillment. By placing the nuclear family, created by romantic love, in the center of our adult lives, all other loves are moved to the sides. Against this background, the authors of the articles included in this special issue contribute to ‘rehabilitating’ other instantiations of love that are either non-romantic (Gheaus Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • New Series • Issue No. 11/ 2018 P a g e | 6 2018, Piazzesi et al 2018), non-monogamous (Brake 2018, Clardy 2018), non-heterosexual (Santos 2018), or altogether cross-species (Stewart 2018). The belief that a heterosexual romantic relationship is essential for human flourishing has a name, ‘amatonormativity’, coined by philosopher Elizabeth Brake. The term denotes the assumption that a central, exclusive, amorous relationship is normal for humans, in that it is a universally shared goal, and that such a relationship is normative, in the sense that it should be aimed at in preference to other relationship types. The assumption that valuable relationships must be marital or amorous devalues friendships and other caring relationships. (Brake 2012: 88-89). Research on friendship between adults confirms the surrender to the social script of the primacy of the family over friendship that takes place in many adults’ lives. For example, a recent study of friendship between men in Sweden found that although they valued their friendships greatly, they felt they had to negotiate partial withdrawals from them once they embarked on a serious (heterosexual) romantic relationship (Goedecke 2018). Even as it has become socially acceptable that one will have several romantic partners in one’s lifetime, these are still one’s “other halves”, “significant others”, or “soulmates” – at least until proven otherwise. Friends, on the other hand, are not – at least not as adults, and even when one has had one enduring close friend for life and multiple, serial romantic “other halves”. If the form of elective family that is the romantic relationship has dissolved, the relationship is said to have “failed” and we were simply mistaken to have started it in the first place: our other half was not our other half after all. Friendship, on the other hand, tends to lack both this
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