Talk of Love

Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler'sTalk of Loveis an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how that culture of love shapes their expectations and behavior in the process. To this end, Swidler conducted extensive interviews with Middle Americans and wound up offering us something more than an insightful exploration of love:Talk of Loveis also a compelling study of how much culture affects even the most personal of our everyday experiences.

Ann Swidler is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Culture's Confusions: Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Finding Culture	p. 11
Repertoires	p. 24
How Culture Works: Love Stories
Examined and Unexamined Lives	p. 43
Cultured Capacities and Strategies of Action	p. 71
Settled and Unsettled Lives	p. 89
Culture from the Outside in: Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage	p. 111
Ties That Do Not Bind	p. 135
Codes, Contexts, and Institutions	p. 160
Conclusion: How Culture Matters	p. 181
Methodological Appendix	p. 215
Notes	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 291
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