Drawing on archival research and exploring the correspondence of revolutionary women and activists in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA, this book examines the epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt's philosophical approaches to love.

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2022-2025). She is the author of Gendering the Memory of Work and Women, Education and the Self, and the co-author of The Archive Project.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Rethinking Love through Arendtian Eyes

Chapter 1: Feeling, Reading, Thinking, Writing Love

Chapter 2: Portraits of Moments in BiosHistory Entanglements

Chapter 3: Archival Agonism, Resistibility and Memory Work

Chapter 4: Amor Mundi, or the Reality of Utopian Love

Chapter 5: Epistolary Waves, Politics, Memory and the Force of Love

Chapter 6: Nobody Knows what Love Can Do

Chapter 7: Even Workers Fall in Love: Eros in the Labour Movement

Conclusion: Epistolary Poethics and Agonistic Politics

Index