Love sick (part 3)
In part-3 of the series Dr, Tallis looks at the difference between Oriental and Western approaches to forming relationships – between arranged coupling and romantic love.
romantic love
Love sick (part 2)
We continue Dr. Frank Tallis’s survey of romantic love with Part-2 – which looks into the origin and evolution of men placing women on pedestals
Love sick (part 1)
Dr. Frank Tallis has written a book on the sickness that is romantic love. We bring you part one of a three-part excerpt from the book.
Eleanor of Aquitaine and her ‘Courts of Love’
For the history-minded among us, this piece by professor Amy Kelly reveals the taproot of our gender malaise
Love sick (part 3)
In part-3 of the series Dr, Tallis looks at the difference between Oriental and Western approaches to forming relationships – between arranged coupling and romantic love.
Love sick (part 2)
We continue Dr. Frank Tallis’s survey of romantic love with Part-2 – which looks into the origin and evolution of men placing women on pedestals
Love sick (part 1)
Dr. Frank Tallis has written a book on the sickness that is romantic love. We bring you part one of a three-part excerpt from the book.
“Romantic Love” by Lester F. Ward (1903)
Written over a century ago, pioneer sociologist Lester F. Ward makes a case for where and when romantic love (aka. gynocentrism) arose.
The other beauty myth
In 1991 Naomi Wolf wrote The Beauty Myth where she claimed that women are oppressed by patriarchal pressure to be beautiful. What she failed to tell us is where the beauty-mandate originated, or how it is used to gain and maintain power over men. Peter Wright fills in some of the gaps left by Wolf’s victim narrative.
