Enjoy a Valentine’s Day sampler from our archive.
Afsaneh Najmabadi, The Erotic Vaṭan [Homeland] as Beloved and Mother: To Love, To Possess, and To Protect, 1997
Choi Chatterjee, Transnational Romance, Terror, and Heroism: Russia in American Popular Fiction, 1860–1917, 2008
Peter M. Beattie, The Jealous Institution: Male Nubility, Conjugality, Sexuality, and Discipline on the Social Margins of Imperial Brazil, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Pettier, “A question of bank notes, cars, and houses!” Matchmaking and the Moral Economy of Love in Urban China, 2022
Kevin Lewis O’Neill, I Want More of You: The Politics of Christian Eroticism in Postwar Guatemala, 2010
Nandini Chatterjee, English Law, Brahmo Marriage, and the Problem of Religious Difference: Civil Marriage Laws in Britain and India, 2010
Jon Piccini and Duncan Money, “A Fundamental Human Right”? Mixed-Race Marriage and the Meaning of Rights in the Postwar British Commonwealth, 2021
