The Empire of Love

"What a brilliant book. Elizabeth A. Povinelli strives to make all the intellectual moves that need to be made today: connecting studies of sexuality to other phenomena that seem to be unrelated, thus opening out what gets to count as 'sexuality'; thinking about sexuality in relation to liberal governance; and moving us beyond the binary opposition of freedom versus constraint. These arguments are refreshing as well as pressing for our times."-- Lisa Rofel, author of "Desiring China"

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University.