The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist by Lena Gunnarsson

The Contradictions of affection: in the direction of a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality deals a powerful and multifaceted theoretical account of ways, in modern western societies, girls remain subordinated to males via sexual love. The booklet defends and elaborates Anna G. Jónasdóttir’s thesis that males are inclined to take advantage of girls in their ‘love power’, via an cutting edge software of serious realism, dialectical severe realism and the philosophy of metaReality. Gunnarsson additionally bargains a critique of the scenario of latest feminist theory.

The writer demonstrates that the meta-theoretical framework of severe realism bargains the instruments which may counter the poststructuralist hegemony nonetheless triumphing in feminist thought. On a basic point, The Contradictions of Love makes an attempt at reconciling theoretical positions which are inclined to look towards each other. particularly, it bargains a manner of bridging the distance among the suggestion of affection as a locus of exploitation and that of affection as a strength which could triumph over oppression.

This publication is a distinct and well timed contribution within the box of feminist conception, in that it bargains the 1st complex review and improvement of Jónasdóttir’s very important yet particularly sidestepped paintings, and in that it counters poststructuralist tendencies from the perspective of a powerful severe realist framework that has hitherto been spectacularly absent in feminist idea, even though it deals suggestions to metatheoretical difficulties on the vanguard of feminist debates; within the box of serious realism generally outlined, in that it elaborates on the most important ontological issues of (dialectical) serious realism and the philosophy of metaReality through a dialogue of the problems of affection, sexuality, gender and tool; and at last, within the box of affection experiences, in that it bargains a worldly account of the way gender asymmetries succeed in love regardless of norms of gender equality and reciprocity, and in that it reconciles feminist, conflict-oriented views on love with notions of affection as transcending conflict.