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Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed | Society books | The Guardian

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This compelling history, from courtship to Tinder and hook-up culture, shows how each transition in dating has produced a scandalised condemnation of increased promiscuity T inder became one of the dominant dating apps in a field already thick with such apps, thanks to the following insight: dating needed to be more like a game. Things that are genuinely fun don’t need to be turned into games – no one needs to swipe right on a picture of an ice-cream cone to be convinced to eat it. Dating, on the other hand, something that we do to ensure our happiness and pleasure, can make us miserable. Stressful, time-consuming, emotionally taxing, frequently disappointing: it can feel like work. Moira Weigel’s Labor of Love, a historical survey of dating in the 20th century, advances the common-sense argument that dating feels like work because it is work, and, like work, it is subject to market forces. Using a wide variety of sources – newspaper cuttings, research studies, non-fiction books, novel

Dating: these swans have got the hang of it … Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA View image in fullscreen Dating: these swans have got the hang of it … Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA Society books This article is more than 9 years old Review Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed This article is more than 9 years old This compelling history, from courtship to Tinder and hook-up culture, shows how each transition in dating has produced a scandalised condemnation of increased promiscuity Willa Paskin Wed 20 Jul 2016 10.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 05.28 EST Share Pr

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