Love Lives
From Cinderella to Frozen

Easy to read despite being non fiction. I particularly enjoyed the first half of the book which explores why 1950s women identified with Cinderella. They so longed for release from domestic drudgery and yet many committed to it very young as the only way of having their own home. As prospects for wo......more

6/10 Rating - Love Lives doesn’t deliver what it says on tin. Ultimately, this is a fairly standard history of gender equality, but with more focus on the written word - both fiction and non-fiction - than other similar histories. There are far far better ones out there, and I simply don’t think thi......more

I preferred the analysis in Dyhouse’s previous book Heartthrobs more but Love Lives is definitely better structured and jumped around less. However, I was expecting more media interpretations from the title alone and those were passing mentions for the drier sociological stuff. A lot of it felt like......more

The subtitle from Cinderella to Frozen exactly describes Love Lives. It is about the way the relationships and coupling of men and women has changed over the last 60 years and how it has been portrayed and influenced by books, television shows, and movies. (She acknowledges that the book is not abou......more

I liked this I just did not realize the wedding was so technical. This would be a amazing book to read in college during a women's studies class.......more