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This article analyzes how the poetry collection Susy, secretos del corazón (1989) by the Argentinian poet, playwright and cultural manager Susana Villalba (Buenos Aires, 1956) establishes a critical dialogue with the comic strip of the same name, published in the sixties and seventies in Latin America. The collection of poems also engages in dialogue with other cultural references through an enunciative process that reveals the social constructs aiming to define and establish femininity. The critical stance of the text becomes evident as it illuminates how the experience of romantic love in women is codified. At the discursive level, from the use of textual mechanisms related to collage and pastiche, an open, mobile, multiple, playful poetic voice is generated-it unfolds to reveal the role of social factors in the construction of subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A case study is presented with the results of a practice of reading for pleasure among a group of women living in the periphery, based on the theory of cultural consumption. The objective was to encourage intergenerational dialogue around the myths of romantic love, gender roles, and femininity, through literary texts written by women. The main results showed that literature is an ideal tool to encourage reflection on issues such as violence, discrimination, abuse, or femicide; at the same time, reading for pleasure increases. It is concluded that literary texts are tools that trigger reflections on gender issues and that the creation of workshops in peripheral areas of the cities can increase the taste for reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the inter-war period, Ortega y Gasset set out to construct a new modernity in which love disappeared. He established a close link between modernity and the regulation of amorous emotion, and between the latter and gender relations. The centrality of love in Ortega's project of rectifying modernity explains the abundance of his writings on the subject, many of these addressed, somewhat veiled, to Victoria Ocampo. There are hardly any studies on Ortega's writings on love and none at all from a gender perspective. This article is also in keeping with the growing interest in the topic of love in the field of gender studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: In Colombia, domestic violence is an important cause of aggression against women with machoism, jealously, and infidelity being the key triggers. Some research indicates that romantic love and related myths may be contributing factors towards the emergence or persistence of domestic violence, as they reaffirm unequal and patriarchal gender roles. Method: This work is a systematic review aimed to synthase the empirical studies about romantic love in Colombia. Following the Prisma protocol, the sample was made up of high-impact articles published in specialized databases about social science with a focus on psychology and 26 were selected. Results: The results pointed that in the Colombian context, the romantic myths are found related to domestic violence, and jealousy and infidelity appearing as signs of aggression. Conclusion: It is concluded that the background of the social beliefs about romantic love in the Colombian culture is highly patriarchal, holding is an unequal, dominating and controlling relationship between the sexes that conduces the gender violence in relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lovers typically entertain two sorts of thoughts about their beloveds. On the one hand, they think that the qualities of their beloveds provide reasons for loving them. On the other, they regard their beloveds as irreplaceable. Yet it may be asked how these two sorts of thoughts can coherently coexist. If Romeo loves Juliet in virtue of her qualities, shouldn't another maiden with the same qualities be equally lovable for him? This paper draws some distinctions that are crucial to the understanding of reasons for love. Its aim is to show that, even though the claim that beloveds are irreplaceable is plausible to some extent, there is a sense in which beloveds are replaceable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to find out the beliefs about love and intimate relationships held by a group of young people from the Community of Madrid. It also explored the possible relationship between these beliefs and gender inequality in the heterosexual couple. The research was based on a qualitative methodological approach and the information was collected using the focus group technique. 34 students from the University of Alcalá participated, aged between 18 and 34 years (M = 21.32; SD = 3.12). The results show that men's and women's beliefs are different and seem to be related to traditional gender mandates. The visibility of the imaginary about love in youth can favor the implementation of preventive programs capable of confronting unequal beliefs and promoting relational models based on equality, respect and non-violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aims of the study were to analyze the psychometric properties of the Myths Scale Toward Love in a sample of Salvadoran students and determine if there are any differences between men's and women's adoption of the myths of romantic love. The sample comprised 211 students (38.4% men and 61.6% women) from 2 universities located in San Salvador and Sonsonate, whose mean age was 22.43 years (SD = 4.92). The results of the exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analysis indicated a 2-factor structure. The reliability of the scale, evaluated with Cronbach's alpha, the index H, and composite reliability, was acceptable. Romantic love myths were found to correlate with the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Compared to women, men agree more with the belief that one can love someone who one mistreats. The instrument can be useful for analyzing the myths of romantic love in El Salvador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this study was to design and validate the Scale of Myths of Romantic Love (SMRL) in a sample of 1168 university students (81.25% women and 18.75% men) from the Community of Madrid. Their mean age was 20.97 years old (SD=4.46). The internal structure was analyzed with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, in which four models were tested: one-factor model, two-independent factor model, two-correlated factor model, and bifactor model. The results provided evidence in favor of the unidimensionality of the SMRL and offered adequate reliability coefficients. Correlations with myths toward love and sexism confirmed the convergent validity. Using the results of the bifactor model, a short version of the scale was obtained. In conclusion, this research offers an instrument with good psychometric properties that allows analyzing the romantic love myths in the Spanish context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the analysis of cultural productions that valued "peace and love," such as Woodstock and Piedra Roja, represented in the novel Palomita Blanca (Lafourcade) and the namesake film by Raúl Ruiz, the present work questions the alleged suicides by overdose or out of love committed by female artists as well as the addictions they have faced as responses to sustained gender violence. Hence, it is concluded that just as art reproduces and promotes violence against women, it can also be an agent that enables a new agreement and understanding of the violence that they would supposedly exercise against themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this investigation was to modify the romantic love beliefs of a group of adolescents as a way to prevent violence in romantic relationships. The article is characterized by making visible how, through romanticized love, violence in relationships is tolerated and justified. Hence, an approach to the subject is made through a participatory intervention with a group of adolescents to reflect on the dyad romantic love and violence. The methodology was qualitative, and the research-action design was used, made up of four phases: planning, action, observation and reflection. The results indicate that working from a participatory approach allowed adolescents to generate significant changes in the perceptions, beliefs, and meanings they had about love from a partner, courtship, and violence. It is concluded that adolescents are able to modify their beliefs through interventions that allow them informed reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we're going to identify and analyse interpretive repertoires of the youngers on their speeches about love. From a social constructionist and gender perspective, we perform an analysis of the speech, in concrete of the interpretative repertoires that appear in the program Boys and Girls issued on the YouTube platform in Spain. The analysis of the used repertories by the participants of the program -- youngers in ages understood between 14 and 19 years old -- has allowed to identify the preference by the use of romantic love repertoire, mani - fested by the use of figures of speech and characteristic strategies, repertoire guide about suitable ways of feeling, producer and supporter of discriminatory practices that situate the sexualized feminism subordinate to the masculine, encouraging and allowing this inequality between men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proceeds from a work that aims to identify the mechanisms that contribute to the construction of romantic love, to achieve this objective is taken as a starting point the theoretical approach of the notions of love to achieve situate the elements pertaining to the representation of romantic love, based mainly on the historical configuration of this phenomenon, as well as the myths that have served as elements of justification in the romantic model. It was used in accordance with the theoretical elements of phenomenon, the gender perspective as a tool of analysis, integrating the theoretical revision of the gender category, as well as the patriarchal institution, to obtain an intersection between the concepts of romantic love and patriarchy. The results of this analysis were delimited between the categories: the patriarchal family, motherhood, romantic myths and the romantic ideal considered as the mechanisms that allow the construction of love. As part of the method used qualitative techniques, the semi-structured interview the instrument that allowed the collection of information in the study, with a series of questions previously elaborated and obtained from the theoretical review, involving women in the present work. The analysis of the information was carried out through the categorization of the answers provided by the participants, considering always the categories obtained in the theoretical analysis. The results highlight the relationship between the patriarchal structure and the construction of romantic love, through the romantic ideal that is established in women, and slips through the romantic myths in the relationship, concluding that institutions and mechanisms patriarchal mechanisms allow and contribute to the establishment and permanence of unequal relations product of romantic love today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research was to analyze the speeches of university students around the concept of romantic love in relationships, to identify the perception people have of women and men within the emotional bond and visualize the collective and individual imaginary shared with the prevailing hegemonic culture. A qualitative methodology court was used and was chosen by the technical group approach, in order to meet the multiplicity of perspectives, ideas, knowledge and beliefs of a group of people made up of four women and four men, respectively, with an age range between 25 and 30 years from different professional areas. The findings revealed that heteronormative continues playing a traditionalist ideology about the love of patriarchal origin, which refers to the culturally shared beliefs about the psychosocial characteristics considered prototypical and exclusive between men and women. Although the speeches also show an idyllic representation that transits from a conservative vision to a modern one that tries to distort the disguise of orthodox morality that over time has preserved and perpetuated in people the myth of romantic love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of the reduced version of the Myths Scale toward Love in a sample of Colombian students. The research sample consists of 443 university students and their mean age is 20.64 years old. The confirmatory factor analysis shows an adequate fit for a two-factor model. Both dimensions correspond to the literature and the reliability is appropriate: Idealized love and Relation between abuse and love. The results show statistically significant differences between men and women. In conclusion, this paper verifies the validity and reliability of this scale in the Colombian background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Love has been subject of interest to various areas of knowledge, art and everyday life. From the field of sociology, this paper aims to analyze social representations of love among young lesbians of Lima's upper class. The focus is on how their trajectories, families and self-identification influence the construction of such representations. Nine interviews were conducted with young lesbians from the upper class to answer the research question. Two approaches to love were found: from romantic to confluent love and towards confluent love. Moreover, it was found that this love holds three secrets: the secret of the inner world, the secret that is kept from their families and the environment and the one that is hidden from their partners. The aforementioned is linked, among other factors, to the specificity of being lesbians from Lima's upper class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the analysis of a specific type of intimacy that developed among couples in relationships during the first half of the 20th Century in Mexican society. First, the analysis traces the presence of the romantic love complex through some of the sociocultural discourses and norms on women, the family and love during the said period, as well as the ways in which freedom in mate selection developed. These elements provide the context in which one specific type of intimate life was likely to unfold between couples, and which was characterized, among other things, by the projection of an anticipated future, a mystical union between the couple, a weak presence of eroticism in sexual life, and probably a low-level of emotional communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyses an intimate diary and a series of letters written by Ada Therezinha, between the years 1946 and 1952, in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Being understood at the sphere of ordinary writings, these egodocuments are plotted by vestiges that are about her love experience with Enio Luiz. One Intends to analyze the meaning of the affective elements and love present in the lady's writing, which have contributed to the imaginary setting of marriage institution as being the fulfillment of romantic apotheosis. The historical investigation is mostly supported by the studies of Cultural History, Women's History and Feminists Studies, which offer theoretical and methodological assis-tance for this theme discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the ways in which the myths of "romantic love" and "the better half" are reproduced in media fiction and examines how audiences read them. We focus on the relationship between Isabel (Adriana Torrebejano) and Cristina (Berta Hernández) -- characters of the TV series Tierra de lobos (Telecinco: 2010-14)-- and develop two research lines: the narrative structure of the series and viewers' response in different Internet forums. We conclude, firstly, that media discourse influences and shapes individual and social imaginaries regarding attraction models in lesbian relationships and, secondly, that the traditional attraction model prevails in the face of more egalitarian alternative models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyzes the relationship between the interpretative repertoire of romantic love and gender violence. We conducted eight life stories with young people between 25 and 35 years old (3 boys and 5 girls), focused on their relationships. We have resorted to discourse analysis, specifically the analysis of interpretative repertoires. This approach has allowed us to identify, characterize and analyze the interpretative repertoire of romantic love. The results show how romantic love's interpretative repertoire guides to appropriate ways of feeling, helping heterosexual, romantic, monogamous and long lasting relationships that are the basis for patriarchy, generating the conditions of possibility for the emergence and maintenance of gender violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze, from a re/de/ constructionist perspective, the categories of romantic love, time and autonomy in the contemporary world, showing that they are unnatural, contrary to what we tend to think, that is, they are not determined "a priori", however, they are lifted from the context, from the history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to delimit some feminine positions in love from songs by Chico Buarque de Holanda, especially the ways in which women and feminine seem in these verses. From the indication of some differences between the representation of women in the courtly love of poetry from troubadours and the plurality of female figures that unfold to infinity in the songs of Chico Buarque, preventing categorizations which seize the woman and at the same time, indicating its mention in constant reference to love. Love is then discussed in terms of the idea of Jacques Lacan's three records (imaginary, symbolic and real), which allows to articulate poetry in its privileged relationship with the signifier and as empty covering feature. Finally it is about the dimension of love countenance and its tie function, demonstrating that the women different positions of saying (and being said) in love inferred both the wrongful character of the woman said to the phallic order, as ungraspable than escapes from that order. Thus, it stands out with Lacan and Chico Buarque, the proximity of the woman with the real - in this case, the real love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from our experience in a research project about young feminist women meanings and experiences on romantic love conducted with Narrative Productions, our aim in this article is to summarize some methodological considerations held on the process. First, we contextualize the research project where these questions emerge, considering aspects related to the topic of study and the methodological design. Secondly, we deepen over four elements that are key for both feminist epistemological discussion and our own research process: 1) reflexivity, 2) articulation, 3) power relationships and 4) social transformation. For each of them, we assess potentialities and boundaries in Narrative Production methodology, illustrating some specific tensions we found in our research practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay brings a map of the romantic love imaginary in the international and Brazilian pop-rock songs, from 1950's to 2000's. The analysis is based on the mapping of symbolic elements that emerge from pop and rock hits in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom in the same period. The theories used are: Gilbert Durand anthropological concept of imaginary and Roland Barthes textual analysis. The method used is the mapping of romantic love imaginary in the selected songs from the identification of symbolic elements responsible for the "starting place" of meanings. Based on the Durand classification of images regimes, it is realized an analysis of these elements. The conclusion shows a map of the romantic love imaginary in pop-rock songs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decline of traditions, institutions and paternal authority in present times has been largely discussed in psychoanalytical literature. Heir of Romanticism and Individualism forged in modernity, romantic love as a cultural value and the last subjective refugee, has ruined. Sexuality understood as absolute pleasure and multiplicity of sensations has been more and more considered as a condition for love relationships. Considering this state of affairs, and based on a theoretical discussion and clinical vignettes, we argue that jealousy is "old-fashioned". The absence of jealousy points at a new ideal for love, not so much romantic, but most of all narcissistic, erotic, multiple and excessive. Based on psychoanalytical studies about love and jealousy, in this paper, we intend to reflect about how today's narcissistic cultural model, still permeated by the remains of Romanticism, continues to interfere with contemporary subjectivity. In an ambiguous way, the absence of jealousy and its opposite correlate "primitive jealousy" take turns in the field of contemporary love relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a strong ethnographic base, this work presents a theoretical critique that seeks to problematize the idea of adequacy of inclusion of the other, of difference, as a source for transformative strategies of social institutions and of culture, while otherwise such a strategy can neutralize the transformative potential that embodies subject positions and non-hegemonic narrative identities (the notion of homosexuality is abandoned). Indeed, the paper criticizes conceptions of romantic love and modern nuclear family that contemporary gay political movements are claiming, from inclusion as priority or exclusive political achievement, since in the process are trapped in the defense of modern institutions. The work suggests the importance of the gay movement considering the proposals of love, family and identity from the postmodern feminist critiques in order to strengthen their potential for cultural change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender differences are socially constructed and they are reflected in the cultural products that a determinate context produces. The taxonomy in different targets that industry and institutions produce in order to build their messages elicit the fact that this difference exists. Comic as consumption object inserted in a mass culture system (re)produce and (re)invent the gender differences constructions in their pages. Romance comics designates a target, women, as the most suitable audience, and present the idea of "romantic love" as the essential theme of their stories reintroducing paternalist models as guarantee of their value. This article reflects on the problem about the perpetuation of these values through romance comic as a specific product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with how Sephardic women in Coro, Venezuela, related to the transition toward the ideal of romantic love in the midst of cultural changes this immigrant group was undergoing. The study is based on the analysis of a number of key pre-nuptial documents of the Sephardic community found in the Coro archive: two betrothal and five dowry contracts. These documents exemplify three manifestations of the modern idea of love. The image of the Jewish woman shut in by her group is lost, giving way to one that coincides with the image of local women; both are caught up in the love values then in vogue in the Western world. In spite of the findings in these documents that hark back to the first five decades of Sephardic immigration to Coro, they only allow us to assert that romantic love was the exception rather than the rule among Coro's Jewish women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo enfoca en el debate sobre la familia en la teoría social. Se reconstruye el debate entre siete autores contemporáneos sobre la familia. Se refieren a las obras de Michel Foucault, Niklas Luhmann, Anthony Giddens, Günter Dux, Pierpaolo Donati, Claude Levi-Strauss y Talcott Parsons.

The study compared the way Mozambican and French people conceptualize romantic love. Two subsamples of 238 Mozambican adults and 250 French adults were presented with 27 cards containing vignettes (scenarios) that described the characteristics of someone's relationship regarding degree of passion, the degree of intimacy, and degree of commitment. Participants assessed the intensity of romantic love experienced by the characters in the scenarios using a continuous scale. The way people from both cultures conceptualized romantic love was not entirely similar, but the differences were very subtle. The impact of each component on the judged intensity of love was similar. In both samples, passion and intimacy explained most of the variance. The algebraic structure of the judgment rule was, however, different. Among French participants, the findings were consistent with an equal-weight averaging rule as suggested by previous authors. Among Mozambican participants, the patterns of rating were, however, consistent with a more complex judgment rule. In this rule, the impact of each factor depended on the level of the other factors: A differential weight averaging rule was proposed that can be written Love = w ic Passion + w 'pc Intimacy + w "pi Commitment / w ic + w 'pc + w "pi [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]