All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (62 page)

in literature (contemporary)

in literature (continental)

love as factor within

mid-twentieth century

Montaigne on

notions of perfection

polygamy

post-Great War

in pre-eighteenth-century England

in primitive societies

Puritanism and

pursuit of happiness and

rates and durability

the Reformation and

religion and

remarriage to same partner

rupture of mid-century ideal

Samuel Johnson on

settling down/finding partner

sex and

Shakespeare on

support for/popularity of

in USA

in Victorian era

Marriage Act (1753)

Married Women’s Property Act (1870, 1882)

Mars (god)

Martin, Kingsley

Martineau, Harriet

masochism

masturbation

matchmakers

McCullers, Carson,
The Ballad of the Sad Café

McEwan, Ian

On Chesil Beach

The Child in Time

Saturday

the media

1950 s consumerism and

commodification of sex

gay culture and

hypersexualized images in

marriage and

sexualization of younger women

medical science

memory

of absent lover

childhood

early childhood

families and

Proust and

songs and

men

age at marriage

capability for love

eating disorders

fundamental ‘rapaciousness’

growing up

infantilization of

libertine tradition

media representations of bodies

the new man

‘psychical impotence’ concept

sex and emotion

sexual anxiety

‘sexual equality’ culture and

see also
fathers

Mencken, H.L.

menstruation

mental illness

Meyer, Stephenie,
Twilight
series

‘milf’ (slang word)

Mill, Harriet Taylor

Mill, John Stuart

The Subjection of Women

Millet, Catherine

Jealousy

The Sexual Life of Catherine M

Mills & Boon

Milne, A.A.

Milton, John,
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

Miltown (sedative)

modernity

post-Great War

monomania

Montaigne, Michel de

Moonstruck
(film)

Moore, Demi

Morrell, Lady Ottoline

Morrissey

Mortier, Erwin

mothers

in 1950s era

absence of

breast feeding

care model

childbirth

as child’s primary carer

child’s symbiotic love for

in Cinderella stories

cult of idealized motherhood

de Beauvoir on

early mothering

iconic purity of Mary

infant’s dependence on

in literature

from little boy’s perspective

from little girl’s perspective

Mary/baby Jesus narrative

mother-love

natural paradigm

in pop culture

pre-twentieth-century

sharing of

taboo of sexual mother

‘unconditional love’ term

in Victorian era

women’s movement and

Mumsnet

Munro, Alice, ‘Carried Away’

Mussolini, Benito

MySpace

myths

Egyptian

Greek

modern

 

 

Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita

Napoleon

Nayar of East India

neuroscience

neuroses

Newnham College, Cambridge

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Norris, Charles G.,
Bread

Nugent, Robert

 

 

obsessive compulsive disorder

obsessive nature of love

jealousy and

older people

cross-generational unions

O’Neill, Joseph,
Netherland

Orbach, Susie

Orwell, George,
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Ottoman Empire

Ouida,
Under Two Flags

Ovid,
Ars Amatoria

Oxford women’s colleges

 

 

Padel, Ruth,
Where the Serpent Lives

paedophilia

Paglia, Camille

Pamuk, Orhan,
The Museum of Innocence

Papini, Giovanni

parents

children as vehicles of hopes

dysfunctional

enjoying of children

expert advice for

imaginative understanding

lone parents

over-zealous

setting of limits

see also
fathers; mothers

parthenogenesis

Partridge, Ralph

passion

ambivalence of

arrival of children and

courtly love and

dissipation of

excessive nature of

as fevered state

permeability to the other

Plato on

see also
first love; sexual desire and sexuality; the erotic

Patmore, Coventry

patriarchal culture

families and

Kafka on

Virgin Mary and

Patton, Claire

penises

Perel, Esther,
Mating in Captivity

Pericles

Perkins, William

permissive era

Great War as agent for change

prohibitions and rules in

youth and

see also
sexual revolution

Person, Ethel Spector

Petrarch, the
Canzoniere

The Philadelphia Story
(film)

Philip II, King of France

Philipson, Mrs Hilton

Phillips, Adam

philosophy

photography

Pinter, Harold,
Betrayal

Plath, Sylvia

Plato

Poe, Edgar Allan, ‘Annabel Lee’

poetry

of Provençal troubadours

political correctness

polygamy

Pope, Alexander,
Essay on Man

pornography

Porter, Cole

postmodernism

poverty

pregnancy

fantasies/fears during

last stages of

prenuptial agreements

Presley, Elvis

primal state, return to

primitivism

privacy

prohibitions and rules

contemporary puritanism

in fiction

inhibitions

Muslim women and

in permissive age

‘psychical impotence’ concept

prostitution

Protestantism

Proust, Marcel,
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu

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