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  • Explosive Emotions

    How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to itWe are in an explosive cultural moment. Whatever explanation for this is offered—inequalities, disaffection of political institutions, traumatic memory, woke culture, the rise of populism, the dominance of technology—it is the inescapable fact that we are in a period of palpable malaise. In ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The End of Love

    A Sociology of Negative Relations

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Why Love Hurts

    A Sociological Explanation

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • The Emotional Life of Populism

    How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy the support of those whom their ideas and policies affect and hurt the most?To make sense of this enigma, the sociologist Eva Illouz argues that ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Hard-Core Romance

    Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society

    by Eva Illouz ...
    From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James's lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

    An Essay on Popular Culture

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards and impoverished political consciousness, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery asks us to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Emotional Technologies

    How Techno-Capitalism Exploits Our Subjectivity

    by Eva Illouz, Jonas Ferdinand ...
    Technology is conventionally viewed as dehumanizing. Yet, as Eva Illouz shows in this concise book, technology has become uniquely emotional, continuously tapping into and eliciting a great variety of emotions. From emojis, GIFs, and likes, to influencers, meditation apps, and virtual worlds, technology increasingly mimics and extends emotional life, turning feelings into quantifiable data and ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • What is Sexual Capital?

    by Dana Kaplan, Eva Illouz ...
    This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and what are the returns for investing money, time, knowledge, and energy in establishing and enhancing our sexual selves?Dana Kaplan ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Manufacturing Happy Citizens

    How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

    by Edgar Cabanas, Eva Illouz ...
    The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive psychologists, happiness economists and self-development gurus at the forefront. With the support of influential institutions and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Emotions as Commodities

    Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity

    Edited by Eva Illouz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions
    Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized and more intensely emotional?Emotions as Commodities offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts ... Read more

    $65.99 USD