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dc.contributor.authorLarsen, Mads
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-09T15:06:09Z
dc.date.available2024-09-09T15:06:09Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifierONIX_20240909_9781040157152_49
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93108
dc.description.abstractIncreasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional stories infused with various mating moralities that compel people to pair-bond and reproduce. After taking readers on a 6-million-year journey through hominin mating regimes—with various extents of promiscuity, polygyny, and monogamy—Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder investigates the past millennium's radical evolution of Western mating beliefs. Nordic literary works illuminate the pivotal transitions between the West’s First, Second, and Third Sexual Revolutions, which occurred around the years 1200, 1750, and 1968. The conclusion chapter points to the Fourth Sexual Revolution, symbolically placed in 2029. Artificial intelligence and other technologies seem likely to transform our mating practices more radically than any of the previous revolutions.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTN Philosophy: aesthetics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
dc.subject.otherWestern Love
dc.subject.otherRomantic relationships
dc.subject.otherSexual Revolution
dc.subject.otherFamily
dc.subject.otherMarriage
dc.subject.otherstorytelling
dc.subject.otherIcelandic Sagas
dc.titleStories of Love from Vikings to Tinder
dc.title.alternativeThe Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003499237
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oapen.relation.isbn9781040157152
oapen.relation.isbn9781003499237
oapen.relation.isbn9781032813196
oapen.relation.isbn9781040157176
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages302
oapen.place.publicationOxford
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