at other times people describe the overwhelmingly vertical nature of their social relationships as an injustice and an imposition. This is because relations of love and exploitation alike are understood as basically unequal. We will suggest that the
Vertical Love
Forms of Submission and Top-Down Power in Orthodox Ethiopia
Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston
Catrin Gibson
In Being and Nothingness , 1 Jean-Paul Sartre claims that all love is doomed to failure. Love is another manifestation of the fundamental project to become God. To become God is impossible, yet it is what all humans strive for in their personal
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 60–79
Love and Violence
Sartre and the Ethics of Need
Katharine Wolfe
Love and Violence: Sartre and the Ethics of Need It could be argued that Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason substitutes Being and Nothingness' s ontological account of interpersonal violence, arising from bad faith, for a
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 37–56
Simone Fryer-Bovair
Troilus and Criseyde can be called a love story on many counts. Its story celebrates the development of Troilus and Criseyde’s romantic love for one another and then laments the dissolution of their relationship. The conclusion of the poem is a
Perveez Mody
This article examines claims about the substantive importance of black letter law for those having marriages of choice in India and offers a critique of the ways in which legal procedure is manipulated. The law is 'bent' not only by the courts and the police to undermine the intentions of legislators and to uphold conservative communal values but also by ordinary people who seek to promote their own agendas and to make moral and instrumental claims. These can make significant space for individual desires and self-choice in the realm of intimate relationships. 'Love jurisdiction' is used to explore this process of 'intermanglement' through which love, romantic relationships and moral rights in relationships get entangled (and sometimes mangled) through legal statute, procedures and everyday practices.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2013
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- Research Article
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- 44–59
Love, Motherhood and Migration
Regulating Migrant Women's Sexualities in the Persian Gulf
Pardis Mahdavi
This article looks at the confluence of love, labour and the law by focusing on the regulation of migrant women's sexualities in the Gulf Coast Cooperation countries of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Migrant women increasingly comprise the majority of migrants to the region as the demand for intimate labour in the Persian Gulf is on the rise. But migrant women who become pregnant while in the Persian Gulf are immediately imprisoned and charged with the crime of zina. These women give birth while incarcerated and spend up to a year with their babies in prison. They are then forcibly separated from their children when they are deported, rendering the children stateless in the host country. Migrant women who are often brought to the Persian Gulf to perform (re)productive labour are seen as immoral if they engage in sexual activities during their time in the Persian Gulf (and this is written into their contracts), and thus are seen as unfit to parent their own children. Some migrant women have recently been protesting these laws by refusing and fighting deportation without their children. This article contrasts discourses about migrant women's sexuality and legal analysis with the lived experiences of selected migrant women and their children through ethnographic research conducted in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City between 2008 and 2014.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 19–37
‘Love Merchandized’
Money in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Manfred Pfister
of love, although these are apparently furthest removed from the cash-nexus of economic and pecuniary interactions. And this is precisely what I shall try to do in my brief and cursory reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets: to reveal the close imbrication
‘Master, Slave and Merciless Struggle’
Sin and Lovelessness in Sartre's Saint Genet
Kate Kirkpatrick
But the account Sartre gives of Genet's person is a loveless one in which there is no reciprocity, others are ‘empty shells’ and love is ‘only the lofty name which [Genet] gives to onanism’ ( G , 530). I have argued elsewhere that Sartre's ontology of
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 22–34
Lena Steveker
's self-control enables her to establish her rule in ‘the Paradise of Love’, as Palermo is called in the play ( Queen and Concubine 3.1. speech 471). Like the use of pastoral, which I have discussed above, the notion of ‘love’ emphasises that commercial
Love is Love
The Recent Jason Jones Judgement in Trinidad and Tobago
Dylan Kerrigan
large numbers of LGBTQI supporters of various ages, waving rainbow flags and banners, cheering ‘Love is love’, high-fiving each other, and in between hugs and chants, one or two were crying tears of joy. On the other side of the street, a much smaller
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 125–129