The Routledge Companion to Love

Ann Brooks is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in 2021. Ann has been a Visiting Professor at the Australian Catholic University since 2018. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Ann has previously held senior academic positions in the UK, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand. She is author of Academic Women (Open University Press, 1997); Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (Routledge, 1997); Gender and the Restructured University (Open University Press, 2001); Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets (Ashgate, 2006); Social Theory in Contemporary Asia (Routledge, 2010); Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets: Asian and Western Perspectives (Routledge, 2011), Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity (Palgrave 2012) (with Ruth Simpson) Popular Culture, Global Intercultural Perspectives (Palgrave, 2014); Consumption, Rights and States-Comparing Global Cities in Asia and the US (Anthem Press, 2014) (with Lionel Wee) and Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Routledge, New York, 2014 and 2016) (co-edited with David Lemmings). Recent books include Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacy and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity (Routledge, 2017), Women, Politics and the Public Sphere (Bristol University Press/Policy Press, 2019), Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society: Love in an International Context (Routledge, 2020).