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This 4-page paper analyzes Giddens' article "Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Romance" and so on. In his article entitled "Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship," author Anthony Giddens attempts to mingle all of these themes together in a somewhat convoluted fashion,
launching the article with how teen-age boys and girls differ in their views of intimacy, moving through the idea that marriage for women was tied to autonomy (underlining this idea
by examining the cases of two battered women) and concluding with the idea that "ideals of romantic love tend to fragment under the pressure of female sexual emancipation and autonomy"
(p. 61). Once the reader slogs through the somewhat confusing prose, the main issue of this article seems to be that romantic love is more of a gender-related thing (mostly
women believe in romantic love) while another type of love, confluent love focuses on what the author calls "contingent love" (that intimacy and love are mutually exclusive). Confluent love, he
points out, means finding that special individual is likely to go away, with focus more on the special relationship. While romantic love is a thing of story books and chick
flicks, confluent love is more realistic - "love here only develops to the degree to which intimacy does," Giddens notes on page 62.
Why is this issue important? Its important because, despite emancipation of women today, there is still a wistful regard for the romantic kind of love, the kind of "happily ever
after" scenario that still exists today (Constance, 2011). This, despite the fact that confluent love is more in play than romantic love. I
think Giddens has a very good point - we can see this in popular culture scenarios. Whitley (2009) a writer with the Christian research institute points out that television shows
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