What is love all about? How do men and women's relationships work and what roles do the people involved in them end up playing? Is it the same for everyone? In this analysis of heterosexual love, Wendy Langford looks at many of the issues involved in today's relationships. Romantic love, the language of the heart, the trouble with love and the problem of desire are just some of the subjects discussed. The author argues that the process of falling in love is essentially only a brief holiday from the gender roles which then reassert themselves in the old forms of domination and oppression....

What is love all about? How do men and women's relationships work and what roles do the people involved in them end up playing? Is it the same for everyone? In this analysis of heterosexual love, Wendy Langford looks at many of the issues involved in today's relationships. Romantic love, the language of the heart, the trouble with love and the problem of desire are just some of the subjects discussed. The author argues that the process of falling in love is essentially only a brief holiday from the gender roles which then reassert themselves in the old forms of domination and oppression....

Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change.
The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.