Love is a losing game

Power and exploitation in romantic relationships

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13042018
AutoresFederica Gregoratto (0000-0003-3174-219X, University of St.Gallen, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume10
Fascículo3
Páginas326-341
Data de publicação2017-09-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Political Power (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2158-379X • E-ISSN: 2158-3803
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2158379x.2017.1382172
OpenAlexW2759604593
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas16

The article elaborates an account of exploitation in romantic love relationships. As a starting point, I borrow Vrousalis’ analytical Marxist definition of economic exploitation under capitalism. Second, I briefly discuss Federici’s conception of capitalist exploitation of women’s labour in the family and in the romantic couple. I introduce and discuss, then, Jónasdóttir’s theory of ‘love power’, which currently counts as the most elaborated critique of exploitation affecting sexual love. I proceed to sketch out my own account, according to which love power is not extracted or appropriated, as Jónasdóttir puts it, but rather suffocated as result of what I call ‘romantic exploitation’. In this view, lovers’ positions of vulnerability and power over, that may give rise to exploitation, are brought about by an intersection of norms defining and regulating notions of romance, gender, race, labour, etc

Capitalism · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sketch · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology