Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. The power of love: Towards an interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical feminist love studies -- The power of love -- Love as method: differences and synergies -- Note -- References -- PART I: Questioning love and power -- 2. The difference that love (power) makes -- My set of theories -- Love and love power: historically specific concepts -- Love power and the erotic as power -- Political sexuality: a dimension of society and domain of study -- The difference that love makes -- Love and systemic 'interpenetration' -- The question of cross-paradigmatic conversation -- Notes -- References -- 3. Alienation in love: Is mutual love the solution? -- The history of love -- A materialist-feminist ontology -- Materialist feminist views on alienation and love -- Alienation as a historical concept -- A historical view of sexual and love alienation -- The dialectic of love (intimacy) vs. sexuality (pleasure): romantic vs. mutual love -- Gender dualism as an ongoing structural feature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. What has happened to the feminist critique of romantic love in the same-sex marriage debate? -- The battle for same-sex marriage in Australia -- Marriage equals romantic love -- Against marriage -- Against romantic love -- The feminist critique -- Feminism, romantic love, and same-sex marriage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Love and affect -- 5. Loveas affective energy: Where feminist love studies meets feminist affect theory -- Feminist love studies meets feminist affect theory -- Love as an affective energy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. From murderous love to worldly love?: Affect theory, violence against women, and the materiality of love