| Title | : | Why Love Leads to Justice: Love Across the Boundaries |
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| ISBN | : | 1107569826 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781107569829 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270 |
| Publication | : | First published November 17, 2015 |
Drawing from developmental psychology (including studies of trauma), political theory, the history of social movements, literature, biography, and law, this book will be a thought-provoking tool for anyone interested in civil rights.
Why Love Leads to Justice: Love Across the Boundaries Reviews
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I wanted to like this so badly. It's just not good. The book pitches itself as using love as a theory to gain justice -- great in theory, but ultimately the theme was lost in autobiographical information and summaries of each of the subjects' major works/contributions. It felt like a book report rather than a theoretical intervention. And it was horribly overwritten, to the point where I had to read sentences multiple times because they were so convoluted and lost the plot.
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Every once and awhile we are lucky enough to encounter a book that shakes the foundations of our understanding of the world. Richards' book on the relationship between love and justice is one of those books. Looking at relationships that challenge patriarchal notions of morality Richards dissects how moral restrictions on who can love makes those who love inappropriately automatically driven to challenge wider norms and ideas. A lovely idea and concept.
"Patriarchy rests on hierarchy, not equality, and violently represses free voice that would challenge the stereotypes. What I found in the love stories at the heart of this book's argument is that love, when it led to resistance, arose from a voice in the lovers that live freed from patriarchal controls." 3
"Patriarchy rests on a psychology of trauma, showing itself in loss of voice and memory." 5
"The now well-documented consequence of trauma is loss of voice and of memory, in particular, loss of the voice of intimate relationship. The loss or suppression of voice, however, is often covered by an identification with the voice of the person who imposed the trauma and internalization of the demands that this more powerful person imposes on one's life." 14
"The patriarchal control of women's sexuality was crucial to Patriarchal authority, whatever the desires and passions of women themselves." 17
"we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." (middlemarch) 24
"I have elsewhere explored in depth the cultural background of such prejudices in terms of what I called "moral slavery". By moral slavery, I understand a long-standing cultural prejudice-weather in extreme religious intolerance like anti-Semitism, or racism, or sexism or homophobia -all of which may reasonably be understood and explicated in terms of an entrenched patriarchal culture that uses the gender binary and hierarchy to target with hostility, as feminine and thus subject to men or the manly, whole group of persons in terms of insults to the dignity of their moral powers" 25
"In Woolf's terms, Women are, or can be, "A Society of outsiders," with perhaps unique insights (like Hester Prynne) as to how to stand at once within and apart. "41
"Orwell...The first step towards sanity is to break the cycle of violence. "55
"What Benedict's Analysis brilliantly illuminates is the larger question of the violence of Patriarchal manhood, what the psychiatrist James Gilligan Has recently exposed as the psychological root of violence, namely the shaming of manhood."205 -
A very present and real book <3 All the stories are amazing and show how Love can prevail, even if all around says otherwise <3
