Love Apocalypse New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility

"Drawing on rich ethnographic research from diverse global contexts, Love Apocalypse reveals how transformations in intimacy are driving declines in marriage and fertility while giving rise to new forms of family life. This timely collection offers fresh insights into cultural and socioeconomic forces shaping fertility decline and shifting configurations of intimate relations." - Lihong Shi, author of Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China

"An excellent collection of case studies from a variety of world areas. The distinction of this volume is that it offers a broad sweep of variables in considering marriage delays and fertility challenges in societies around the world and brings the issue of delayed/non-marriage, declining fertility, and new intimacies up to date. Convincingly argued and thought-provoking, Love Apocalypse offers timely insights into these pressing issues." - Nancy Smith-Hefner, coeditor of Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays