Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love LifeRomance and love are in a state of crisis: Statistically speaking, young women today are living romantic lives of all kinds—but they’re still feeling bogged down by social, cultural, economic, and familial pressures to love in a certain way. Young women in the modern world have greater flexibility than ever when it comes to who we choose to love and how we choose to love them; but while social circumstances may have changed since our parents’ generation, certain life expectations remain. In Outdated, Samhita Mukhopadhyay addresses the difficulty of negotiating loving relationships within the borderlands of race, culture, class, and sexuality-and of holding true to our convictions and maintaining our independence while we do it. Outdated analyzes how different forms of media, cultural norms, family pressure, and even laws, are produced to scare women into believing that if they don’t devote themselves to finding a man, they’ll be doomed to a life of loneliness and shame. Using interviews with young women that are living around, between, within, and outside of the romantic industrial complex, Mukhopadhyay weaves a narrative of the alternative ways that women today have elected to live their lives, and in doing so offers a fresh, feminist look at an old topic: How do diverse, independent young women date happily and successfully—and outside of the box? |
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Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life Samhita Mukhopadhyay. oUTDATeD. Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life Copyright © 2011 by Samhita Mukhopadhyay Published by Seal Press A Member of the Perseus Books Group 1700 Fourth Street Berkeley ...
Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life Samhita Mukhopadhyay. To Ma , for sacrificing everything so I could have the opportunity to ask the questions you never had the luxury to ask . ( I also dedicate this to you with the hope that you don ...
Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life Samhita Mukhopadhyay. 6. the. (new). problem. That. Has. NO. NAME. { INTRoDUCTIoN } This story starts just like every other story of heartbreak. It was the summer of 2007 and I was living in San ...
... dating and self - help ( all eight shelves , I kid you not ) , I saw book after book telling women what they were ... books on the shelf were geared toward women ( men's dating books do exist , but more on that later ) . What I was ...
Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life Samhita Mukhopadhyay. responsible for ruining women's love lives ; all men are ... books , and the mainstream values they regurgitated , were trying to convince single women that there's something wrong ...
Contents
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Searching For Citizenship In The State Of Love | 41 |
Cinderella 20 | 62 |
Top Five Sexist Myths | 84 |
Single And Lovin It Sorta | 110 |
Nice Guys Pickup Artists And The Masculinity Crisis | 133 |
Dating While Feminist DWF | 154 |
Naughty Girls Need Love Too | 176 |
The Art of Feminist Romantic Maintenance | 203 |
Notes | 225 |
Acknowledgments | 232 |