The scientific literature has already demonstrated the benefits of romantic love as a key
protective factor in the prevention of violence. Some recent publications affirm that romantic�…

Some prevention programs start from the assumption that romantic love triggers gender
violence. This assumption has no scientific basis; no links have been found in the literature�…

A methodological background for cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to the concept of
romantic love set the scene in this chapter, covering the topic from multiple angles. This�…

How might we usefully conceptualize romantic love in historical work? Historians of the
emotions typically move across and between disciplines in the humanities along with the�…

Introduction Violence against women is a global health problem, and gender violence is a
multifactorial phenomenon generally attributed to the fact of living in a patriarchal culture�…

This innovative book aims to further our understanding of violence in intimate relationships
between men and women by combining research from psychology, cultural studies, and�…

Although not a historical study of love and romance, this is an important book for historians
interested in emotion and culture for three reasons. It provides important anthropological�…

The article presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, psychological, and
sociological review of cultural perspectives on love: how culture affects our experience and�…

Abstract For more than 4,000 years, poets and storytellers have sung of the delights and
sufferings of love and lust. This chapter reviews what scholars from various disciplines have�…

The scientific efforts to understand love and sex stem from the late nineteenth century and
continued in twentieth century. Despite those early attempts, scholars often resisted�…