In the Name of Love: A Study of Sexual Desire

by Jill Tweedie

All for love, and nothing for reward. Is love the rosy, many-splendored thing that poets proclaim--or is it something altogether darker and more disturbing? Jill Tweedie’s eloquent and disarming account of her own experience of love vividly illustrates how painfully and slowly she learned a truth very different from the popular myth. She explores the very nature, process, and purpose of this most powerful of human forces--and the wrongs that have been done in its name over the centuries--and concludes that perhaps love is not all we need. This is both a searing portrait of love (and the passion it inspires) and a deeply personal and affecting account of this mysterious force and its effect on one woman’s life.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Jill Tweedie was born in Egypt in 1936. One of the foremost women involved in the British feminist movement, she worked for many years as a columnist on The Guardian where her writing with its warmth, wit and emotional honesty spoke to thousands of women. She wrote regularly for newspapers and magazines and was twice made Woman Journalist of the Year.

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my favorite books that I was happy to randomly pick up at the book store. It views love in a self sufficient and almost selfish way that gives power to people in relationships. If you are a woman who struggles with interacting in an ecology of power imbalances, this is a great read.

[Owen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think book was brilliant. Full of conviction, full of laughter and irony. I throughly enjoyed reading this. Was a real page turner!