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  Title

  Extravagant expectations : new ways to find romantic love in America

  Author

  Hollander, Paul, 1932-  

  Publisher:

  Ivan R. Dee,

  Pub date:

  c2011.

  Pages:

  xi, 251 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9781566637770

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HQ801 .H7155 2011	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781566637770 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  1566637775 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  (ISBN invalid)9781566639347 (electronic)

  ISBN:

  (ISBN invalid)1566639344 (electronic)

  Personal Author:

  Hollander, Paul, 1932-

  Title:

  Extravagant expectations : new ways to find romantic love in America / Paul Hollander.

  Publication info:

  Chicago, [Ill.] : Ivan R. Dee, c2011.

  Physical description:

  xi, 251 p. ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  Introduction : from arranged marriage to social isolation -- Modernity, romantic love, and the rise of expectations -- Popular romanticism in America -- Expert advice on dating and mating -- Self-presentation and wish lists in printed personals -- Looking for love on the Internet : Massachusetts -- Looking for love on the Internet : Nebraska and Alabama -- Looking for love on the Internet : California -- Conclusion : the entitlement to happiness.

  Summary:

  The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals, and self-help relationship books reflects the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting values, trends, and fashions--disseminated by popular culture, advertising, and assorted "experts"--Americans face uncertainties about the best ways to meet important emotional and social needs. How do we establish lasting and intimate personal relationships, including marriage? In Extravagant Expectations Paul Hollander investigates how Americans today pursue romantic relationships, with special reference to the advantages and drawbacks of Internet dating compared to connections made in school, college, and the workplace. By analyzing printed personals, dating websites, and advice offered by pop psychology books, he examines the qualities that people seek in a partner and also assesses the influence of the remaining conventional ideas of romantic love. Hollander suggests that notions of romantic love have changed due to conflicting values and expectations and the impact of pragmatic considerations. Individualism, high expectations, social and geographic mobility, changing sex roles, and the American national character all play a part in this fascinating and finally sobering exploration of the efforts of men and women to find love and meaning in life. --Book Jacket.

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  Subject term:

  Man-woman relationships--United States.

  Subject term:

  Mate selection--United States.

  Subject term:

  Love--United States.

  Subject term:

  Personals--United States.

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