Reinventing Love
How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations

Name: Reinventing Love
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mona Chollet
ISBN: 9781250350800

Author: Mona Chollet, Susan Emanuel

Narrator: Alix Dunmore

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 07/02/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies

Synopsis

A new work by the author of “In Defense of Witches” that seeks to redefine heterosexual relationships and give women back their voice.

As feminist principles have taken wider hold in society, and basic ideas about equality for women can seem a given, many women still struggle in one of the most important areas of life: love. Whether it’s finding a partner, seeking a commitment from one, or struggling in a relationship that is unfulfilling or even potentially abusive, women still find that deeply-engrained notions of gender and behavior can be obstacles to a healthy, loving relationship. In her new book, acclaimed French feminist Mona Chollet tackles some of these long-held and pervasive ideas that remain stumbling blocks for many women in heterosexual relationships.

Drawing from popular culture, politics, and literature, Reinventing Love provides a provocative, accessible look at how heterosexual relationships can improve and evolve under a feminist lens.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Mona Chollet

Mona Chollet is a Franco-Swiss writer and journalist. In Defense of Witches is her first book to be translated into English. She lives in Paris, France.

About Susan Emanuel

Susan Emanuel has worked as a translator for fifteen years and has translated many articles and books in history, theology, and social sciences. She lives in Burgundy and outside Boston with her husband, a scientist, and their son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deschardons

EH BEN C’ÉTAIT DÉCEVANT. J’ai adoré Chez soi et Beauté fatale, Sorcière ne m’a pas laissé un souvenir impérissable mais sur le moment il m’a vraiment bouleversé et il a bouleversé toutes les copines à qui je l’ai offert. Mais là j’ai pas kiffé. J’ai aimé : le chapitre final sur les fantasmes féminin......more

Goodreads review by Celestina1210

Un livre que j’ai trouvé intéressant et qui m’a fait réfléchir un peu à l’ado que j’étais. Au lycée et en fac je ne vivais que pour les auteurs romantiques je rêvais d’amour passionnel et de souffrance j’ai lu Goethe Musset. Et pour moi, l’amour véritable était conditionné à la souffrance et du coup......more

Goodreads review by Marion

Cet essai est du pur Mona Chollet : ultra-référencé tout en étant franchement accessible, plein d’analyses théoriques, littéraires, cinématographiques ou même de situations personnelles. Pour la partie « Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles », on y est, il n’y a pas de doute. L......more

Goodreads review by Jillian

This book of feminist theory points to the challenges of being a heterosexual woman in a patriarchal world. It makes the case that cultural gender norms reduce men, women and the relationships between them to far less than they should be. It’s translated from French, and that particular cultural out......more

Goodreads review by Jowix

2.5 Same old, same old. Nie wnoszący nic nowego remiks feministycznych hitów, bez rozbudowanych postulatów, bez jasnego oznaczenia pola badań, niedbale meandrujący między kulturą, anegdotami i statystykami. Już dość mam takich tekstów.......more

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Praise for Reinventing Love

“In a spirited social critique, French feminist Chollet draws on movies, TV, novels, advertisements, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory to examine impediments to fulfilling experiences of heterosexual love…A vital celebration of loving.”—Kirkus Reviews

"Four years after #Metoo, feminist literature is tackling the crux of the problem: heterosexual relationships. Unease has mounted among feminist heterosexuals, feeling torn at best, traitorous to their cause at worst. Fortunately Mona Chollet is here." —Vogue (France)

"[A] committed, honest, astonishing approach in search of tangible emancipation." — Le Monde

"[Chollet is] an inspiring figure for an entire generation of feminists."--Elle (France)

"'Reinventing love.' An ambitious project, but could we expect less from Mona Chollet, a successful author who has become an icon of feminism?... [Chollet] dissects a subject often shunned by feminism: love." —Huffington Post (France)

"[Chollet] questions the eroticization of male domination, the weight of male fantasies, the centrality of love learned very quickly by girls, the scripts that we have internalized, and notes that our sentimental society is based on the subordination of the feminine." —Lire (France)

Praise for In Defense of Witches

“A thought-provoking, discursive survey by a bright light of Francophone feminism….In today’s France, Chollet has emerged as a quiet revolutionary, pushing back against the clichés and the patriarchy that shapes them.”
—Rachel Donadio, The New York Times Book Review

"This delightful book, part history, part literary criticism, part political manifesto, explains why independent women are the witches of today, and calls on all women to mount our broomsticks and fly.”
—Katha Pollitt, author of Pro and Learning to Drive

“A smart feminist treatise reclaiming the witch and her radical way of life as a path forward for women….”
—Jenna Jay, Booklist