Reinventing Love

A powerful feminist exploration of the heterosexual relationship experience, from the author of In Defense of Witches.

In Reinventing Love, Mona Chollet examines how heterosexual relationships can be improved and strengthened through feminism. Drawing from popular culture, politics, and literature, she argues that the patriarchy is a powerful, destructive force that distorts relationships between men and women. But feminism, she writes, doesn't mean the end of love—on the contrary, it provides the tools to reinvent it.

Chollet looks at everything from the wife's traditional and often invisible domestic burden to the cultural devaluing of women's speech and authority; from the enduring and limiting myths of romantic love to the act of "mom shaming" that holds mothers to an impossible standard. She shows that while heterosexual relationships are still structured by an old-fashioned and reactionary model, the conditions are ripe for a revolution—one that will benefit everyone.

Sharp and persuasive, Reinventing Love provides a fascinating, erudite, and personal account of how we might begin to rethink relationships.