The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love
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 love is a powerful cause of gender violence following two steps. First, they attribute a list of causes of violence...
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author | Paula Cañaveras Garazi Lopez de Aguileta Mengna Guo Elisabeth Torras-Gómez Alba Crespo-López Benjamín Menéndez-Martínez Maria del Pilar Fernández-González Lidia Puigvert-Mallart Ramon Flecha |
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description | 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 love is a powerful cause of gender violence following two steps. First, they attribute a list of causes of violence to romantic love calling them “the myths of romantic love”, including lack of freedom and the normalization of coercion. Nonetheless, research has not explored in depth yet whether what they call “romantic love myths” are consubstantial characteristics of romantic love or not. To that end, this study conducts a historical literature review of scientific articles, books, literary and musical works from diverse cultures and periods. Findings show those myths are not characteristics of romantic love; on the contrary, the literature reviewed shows six main characteristics of romantic love that demonstrate it is the opposite of those myths, as it has freed women from feudal and other subjugations throughout history.
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spelling | doaj.art-c5bbe256d3074eae8a250ed717e2da662024-04-22T08:45:24ZengHipatia PressHistoria Social y de la Educación2014-35672024-04-0110.17583/hse.14505The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic LovePaula Cañaveras0Garazi Lopez de Aguileta1Mengna Guo2Elisabeth Torras-Gómez3Alba Crespo-López4Benjamín Menéndez-Martínez5Maria del Pilar Fernández-González6Lidia Puigvert-Mallart7Ramon Flecha8University of Barcelona University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of BarcelonaUniversity of Barcelona; Autonomous University of BarcelonaUniversity of BarcelonaIES Alfonso IIUniversity of OviedoUniversity of BarcelonaUniversity of BarcelonaThe 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 love is a powerful cause of gender violence following two steps. First, they attribute a list of causes of violence to romantic love calling them “the myths of romantic love”, including lack of freedom and the normalization of coercion. Nonetheless, research has not explored in depth yet whether what they call “romantic love myths” are consubstantial characteristics of romantic love or not. To that end, this study conducts a historical literature review of scientific articles, books, literary and musical works from diverse cultures and periods. Findings show those myths are not characteristics of romantic love; on the contrary, the literature reviewed shows six main characteristics of romantic love that demonstrate it is the opposite of those myths, as it has freed women from feudal and other subjugations throughout history. https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/hse/article/view/14505romantic lovehistoryfreedomgender violence |
spellingShingle | Paula Cañaveras Garazi Lopez de Aguileta Mengna Guo Elisabeth Torras-Gómez Alba Crespo-López Benjamín Menéndez-Martínez Maria del Pilar Fernández-González Lidia Puigvert-Mallart Ramon Flecha The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love Historia Social y de la Educación romantic love history freedom gender violence |
title | The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love |
title_full | The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love |
title_fullStr | The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love |
title_full_unstemmed | The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love |
title_short | The Characteristics versus the “Myths” of Romantic Love |
title_sort | characteristics versus the myths of romantic love |
topic | romantic love history freedom gender violence |
url | https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/hse/article/view/14505 |
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