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Author: Sharon Hayes
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 3.109kg
ISBN: 9781137008800
ISBN 10: 1137008806
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 19 May 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is an unconventional monograph offering a fresh look at the relationship between culture, love and abuse. ... I enjoyed Hayes' engagement with popular culture, and generally enjoyed her reflective, imaginative approach to enquiry. ... This book is a provocation to think eclectically about the connections between sex, love, crime and culture, and deserves to be read. (Jennifer Fleetwood, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 56 (1), January, 2016) The book is a sensitive and insightful critique of discourses of love, and 'seeks to destabilize essentialist understandings' of love, harm and intimacy ... . The book is engaging, stimulating, and difficult to put down, and would appeal to academics and non-academics alike due to its versatility and applicability to everyday representations of love and romance ... . I would highly recommend it ... . (Jennifer Sloan, Crime Media Culture, Vol. 11 (3), 2015)
This is an unconventional monograph offering a fresh look at the relationship between culture, love and abuse. ... I enjoyed Hayes' engagement with popular culture, and generally enjoyed her reflective, imaginative approach to enquiry. ... This book is a provocation to think eclectically about the connections between sex, love, crime and culture, and deserves to be read. (Jennifer Fleetwood, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 56 (1), January, 2016) The book is a sensitive and insightful critique of discourses of love, and 'seeks to destabilize essentialist understandings' of love, harm and intimacy ... . The book is engaging, stimulating, and difficult to put down, and would appeal to academics and non-academics alike due to its versatility and applicability to everyday representations of love and romance ... . I would highly recommend it ... . (Jennifer Sloan, Crime Media Culture, Vol. 11 (3), 2015)
This is an unconventional monograph offering a fresh look at the relationship between culture, love and abuse. I enjoyed Hayes engagement with popular culture, and generally enjoyed her reflective, imaginative approach to enquiry. This book is a provocation to think eclectically about the connections between sex, love, crime and culture, and deserves to be read. (Jennifer Fleetwood, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 56 (1), January, 2016) The book is a sensitive and insightful critique of discourses of love, and seeks to destabilize essentialist understandings of love, harm and intimacy . The book is engaging, stimulating, and difficult to put down, and would appeal to academics and non-academics alike due to its versatility and applicability to everyday representations of love and romance . I would highly recommend it . (Jennifer Sloan, Crime Media Culture, Vol. 11 (3), 2015)
Author Information
Sharon Hayes is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her critical analyses of gender and crime are published in journals such as Sexualities and Critical Criminology, and in previous monographs including Sex, Crime and Morality (2012) and The Politics of Sex Trafficking (Palgrave, 2013).
