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What Love Is

And What It Could Be

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What Love Is

By: Carrie Jenkins
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social construct (the idea of a perfect fairy-tale romance) and a physical manifestation (those anxiety-inducing heart palpitations); we must recognize its complexities and decide for ourselves how to love. Motivated by her own polyamorous relationships, she examines the ways in which our parameters of love have recently changed - to be more accepting of homosexual, interracial, and nonmonogamous relationships - and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Full of anecdotal, cultural, and scientific reflections on love, What Love Is is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand what it means to say "I love you". Whether young or old, gay or straight, male or female, polyamorous or monogamous, this audiobook will help each of us decide for ourselves how we choose to love.

©2017 Caroline Susanne Jenkins (P)2017 Gildan Media LLC Consciousness & Thought Gender Studies Metaphysics Movements Relationships Social Sciences Society Thought-Provoking Young Adult Romance

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What a whim...

I bought this on a whim and then promptly procrastinated for quite a few months. I changed that tack a couple of weeks finding it the perfect brain fodder for whilst out walking.
This book has a tonne of potential and numerous way points for the reader to get off the bus and explore before rejoining the journey.
I highly recommend this book because for me it pointed out how little I know about love.
Pick it up and make up your own mind if you too want to join the dots on an incredibly important subject.

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