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The Relationships Industry: Money and Love

G.K. Peatling | winter2017

The business of relationships Has there ever been a society as obsessed as modern English-speaking Western societies are by “relationships,” “love,” and “families” as conventionally defined? Cultural production is dominated by the subject, not just in the popular genres of

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