About the Author

Jennifer S. Hirsch is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Holly Wardlow is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

Modern Loves offers an overview of current scholarship on love in the context of sexual relationships cross-culturally, and provides a view of the complexity of varied aspects of emotion, social structure, and social change in contemporary sexual relationships. It makes the case for a political economic understanding of the emergence of ideologies of love, marriage, and courtship as part of expanding global economies. - Linda-Anne Rebhun, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University