Love and Sexuality in Social Theory (Hardcover, 1)

'Introduction. Introduction: Sexuality and Social Theory: Studying Sexuality, Love and Intimate Life. Part I. Forerunners and Modern Classics. 1. Authority, Love, and Sexuality in the Works of John Millar. 2. Georg Simmel: the Flirtation, the Love, and the Dualism of Individuality. 3. Discovering Altruism: Sorokin’s Love Analysis. 4. The Chicago School’s Reflection on Love, Sexuality, and Deviance: A Reading of William Isaac Thomas’s “The Unadjusted Girl: With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis”. 5. Marianne Weber and the (wo)men’s Condition: Love as a Device for Social Change. 6. Love and Sexuality in the Frankfurt School. 7. Reich’s Legacy: Power and Sexuality in Social Life. 8. The Crossed Ambivalence: Social Equality and Sexual Difference in Simone De Beauvoir. 9. Intimacy in the Interaction Order: The Legacy of Erving Goffman in Studies of Gender, Love and Sexuality. Part II. Classics of the Contemporary Age. 10. Michel Foucault: Sex and Sexuality in the Genealogy of the Modern Western Subject. 11. The Code of Intimacy. Love and Sexuality in Niklas Luhmann. 12. The New Diotima: Agnes Heller's Thoughts on Love. 13. Sexual Scripts: Sexuality and Desire in the Work of John H. Gagnon and William Simon. 14. The Trials and Tribulations of Late-modern Intimate Life: Revisiting the Ideas of Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman on Contemporary Love, Sexuality, and Eroticism. 15. Romantic Suffering and Morality: Love for Illouz.