Love and the Politics of Care

Stanislava Dikova is a postdoctoral researcher in twentieth century literature and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex. Wendy McMahon is an Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of East Anglia.Jordan Savage is a Lecturer in United States Literature at the University of Essex.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionStanislava Dikova, Keele University, UK; Wendy McMahon, University of East Anglia, UK; and Jordan Savage, University of Essex, UKPart 1: Love and Cultures of Marriage1. Public Romance in India and Its Transgressive PotentialMeghna Bohidar, University of Delhi, India2. Gratitude’s CompulsionLan Kieu, Umeå University, Sweden3. The Beatitudes of Love: Revisiting Stanley Spencer’s Ways of SeeingRacheal Harris, Deakin University, Australia Part 2: Love and Communal Pedagogies of Care4. Symbiosis Masquerades as Love in the (Post-)Apartheid World of Marlene van Niekerk's AgaatShekufeh Owlia, University of Tehran, Iran5. Parenting as a Political Pedagogy: Love as Methodology, Parenting as PraxisShelley Maddox, Loyola University Chicago, USA6. Caring with, Voice and Under-Represented Expressions of Love in and through The Undefinable by She Goat: An Artist-Researcher's PerspectiveEugénie Pastor, Little Bulb Theatre, She Goat, and London South Bank University, UK; with Shamira TurnerPart 3: Love and Neoliberal Care7. Not in the Mood: Reading Love in the Contemporary UniversityKaren Schaller, University of East Anglia, UK8. Should I Be Scared When You Say That You Love Me? Youth Work Practice and the Power of Professional LoveMartin Purcell, University of Huddersfield, UK9. Reciprocity, Love and Market in Brazilian Care Work for the ElderlyAnna Bárbara Araujo, United Nations Women, Brazil10. Love, Power and Justice in the Shadow of the Contemporary English PrisonChristina Straub, Leeds University, UKIndex

This is a beautifully and eloquently written volume about love and its vicissitudes, particularly as they relate to practices of care and the psychosocial challenges underpinning them. Building on concrete examples that span across a range of spatial, temporal and institutional contexts, the volume offers a truly transdisciplinary account of love, care and their interrelationship. An essential reading for anyone interested in a more capacious and politically ambitious understanding of love and care.