Love, postmodernity and gender perspective: between romantic love and liquid love

  • Alejandro Sánchez-Sicilia Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
  • Jenny Cubells Serra Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/INFE.58143
Keywords: Discourse, Bauman, Gender Studies, Teenagers, Consumption

Abstract

Bauman coin the term liquid modernity to conceptualize and visualize the new form that we use to implicate and link us interpersonally. In this article we have wanted to analyze this transition, by means of discourse analysis, in concrete of the interpretative repertories of the searching love program Boys and Girls issued on the YouTube platform, identifying the characteristics that make up the liquid love repertoire, in both cases, theoretical and rhetorical elements. The analysis we have carried out, has allowed to identify the conflict, coexistence, complementation and fusion between the romantic and liquid love, creating a phenomenon that we have named “Romantic Consumption”. Likewise, from gender analysis, both romantic and liquid practices involve a subordination and objectification of the feminine before the masculine. In both practices, women are unprovided of their agency capacity, and they are presented as objects waiting to be conquered in romantic love, and consumed in liquid love.

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Alejandro Sánchez-Sicilia, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Graduado en Piscología por la Unversidad de La Laguna. Máster en investigación e intervención psicosocial por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Actualmente realizando el Doctorado en Persona y Sociedad en el Mundo Contemporáneo de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Entre sus últimas publicaciones destacan:

Sánchez-Sicilia, Alejandro y Cubells, Jenny (2017). Discurso amoroso adolescente: Análisis del repertorio del amor romántico en el programa chicos y chicas. Athenea digital: En prensa.

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Treball, Afers Socials y Famílies (2017). Informe Avaluació del Procés d’Implementació de la Llei 11/2014 del 10 d'octubre, per a garantir els drets de les persones lesbianes, gais, bisexuals, transgèneres i intersexuals i per a eradicar l'homofòbia, la bifòbia i la transfòbia. Recuperado de http://premsa.gencat.cat/pres_fsvp/docs/2017/04/18/12/50/06d8ccb2-5345-4c8e-b77b-f32a25cdcdee.pdf

 

Jenny Cubells Serra, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Doctora en Psicología Social. Profesora Agregada en la UAB. Responsable del Grupo de investigación Estudios Sociales, del Género i el Poder i la Subjetividad. Entre sus útlimas publicaciones destacan:

Cubells, Jenny y Calsamiglia, Andrea (2016). El repertorio del amor romántico y las condiciones de posibilidad para la violencia machista. Universitas Psychologica 14(5), 1681-1694. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy14-5.rarc

Calsamiglia, A; Cubells, J.(2016) El potencial del Teatro-Foro como herramienta de investigación. Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social, 16(1) p.189-209.

 

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Published
2018-05-07
How to Cite
Sánchez-Sicilia A. y Cubells Serra J. (2018). Love, postmodernity and gender perspective: between romantic love and liquid love. Investigaciones Feministas (Feminist Research), 9(1), 151-171. https://doi.org/10.5209/INFE.58143
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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018): Monographic: Women as subject and object of post-war art
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