课程说明

This is a seminar that investigates the transformation of romantic love within the modernist dynamic, in other words, a socio-historical study of the changing meaning and significance of romantic love in the modern age. Students are required to keep up with weekly readings, make oral presentations in class, and participate in class discussions. There will be a mid-term paper required, which deals with one aspect of romantic love in the Taiwanese or Chinese context (written in Chinese, 3000 to 5000 words). Final papers must be done in English according to all scholarly requirements (10-15 pages). Topics must be approved by the instructor beforehand. No late papers will be accepted.

Readings:

• Beck, Ulrich. “Part II.” Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage, 1986, 1992. 85-150.
• Beck, Ulrich and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. “Individualization and ‘Precarious Freedoms’: Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Orientated Sociology.” Detraditionalization. Edited by Paul Heelas, Scott Lash and Paul Morris. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 23-48.
• ---. The Normal Chaos of Love. Cambridge: Polity, 1994.《爱情的正常性混乱》台北立绪，苏锋山、魏书娥、陈雅馨译。
• De Beauvoir, Simone. “The Woman In Love.” The Second Sex. Trans. by H. M. Parshley. New York: Bantam. 603-629.
• Featherstone, Mike. “Introduction.” Love and Eroticism. London: SAGE, 1999. 1-18.
• Firestone, Shulamith. “Love.” The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow. 121-147.
• Giddens, Anthony. “The Emergence of Life Politics.” In his Modernity and Self-ldentity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 209-231. 《现代性与自我认同》赵旭东、方文译，北京三联。
• ---. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society. Cambridge: Polity P, 1992. 37-86; 184-204.
• Giddens, Anthony and Christopher Pierson. “Interview Five: From the Transformation of Intimacy to Life Politics.” In their Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1998. 118-150.
• Langford, Wendy. “Government by Love.” Revolutions of the Heart: Gender, Power ad the Delusions of Love. London & New York: Routledge, 1999. 1-22.
• Lindholm, Charles. “Love and Structure.” Featherstone. 243-263.
• Radway, Janice A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984. “Introduction,” “The Institutional Matrix,” “The Act of Reading the Romance.” 3-45; 86-118.
• Restivo, Sal. “The Sociology of Love” in his The Sociological Worldview. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. 117-146.
• Watt, Ian. “Love and the Novel.” “Private Experience and the Novel.” The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley: U of California P, 1964. 135-207.
• Weber, Max. “The Erotic Sphere.” From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Ed. by H. H. Gerth & C. Wright Mills. London: Routledge, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997. 343-350.

Other Interesting Readings:

• 布劳等，＜附带讨论：爱情＞，《社会生活中的交换与权力》，孙非译，久大桂冠，1991，88-100。
• 杨福泉。《神奇的殉情》。香港∶三联书店，1993。
• Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988, 1989.
• Elias, Norbert. “The Changing Balance of Power between the Sexes in Ancient Rome.” In his On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge. Ed. by Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.
• Jamieson, Lynn. Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies. Cambridge: Polity P, 1998. Chapters 2, 6.
• Luhmann, Niklas. “ Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication.” Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy. Trans. By Jeremy Gaines and Doris L. Jones. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1982, 1986. 18-33.
• Modleski, Tania. Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. New York: Routledge, 1990.
• Mumford, Laura Stempel. Love and Ideology in the Afternoon: Soap Opera, Women and Television Genre. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.
• Seidman, Steven. Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980. New York: Routledge, 1991.《午后的爱情与意识形态：肥皂剧、女人和电视剧种》，林鹤译，北京：中央编译出版社，2000年。
• Thurston, Carol. The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.