Books like Count the ways by Aron, Paul

A collection of candid essays that examines what it means to love, be loved, and how we display love to the world.

Kate, a successful magazine writer in her mid-30s, struggles to find love in modern times, while also trying to keep her family's Scottish estate from foreclosure.

Lacey Lyman sets out to find a husband for her struggling business, but the mysterious man she's trying to woo is more interested in uncovering the truth about a tragic mining accident.

Doris Langley Moore offers practical guidance on navigating modern romance, detailing techniques for effective courtship and deepening love between men and women.

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.