Hsiung, Hansun (Author)
Serrano, Elena (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 112
Issue: 4
Pages: 760-765
Algorithmically driven online dating platforms today promise the ability to sort through relevant data and identify one’s ideal amorous matches effectively. Yet the appeal of technological and scientific solutions to the messy problem of finding partners is hardly new. This introduction to the Focus section “It’s a Match!” argues that the history of amorous matching has long been part and parcel of the history of science, in particular the social sciences. Taking matching as an “applied science of social harmony,” the authors argue that concern over more reliable techniques for determining the suitability of partners has formed an essential part of both the maintenance of social order and the shaping of subjectivities, enabling discourses of informed choice and the rational management of the passions, while also reinforcing and subverting structures of age, gender, race, and sexuality.
...MoreArticle Dan Bouk (2021) Love Is a Problem of Knowledge. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 804-806).
Article Carla Bittel (2021) Cranial Compatibility: Phrenology, Measurement, and Marriage Assessment. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 795-803).
Article Hansun Hsiung (2021) From Harmony to eHarmony: Charles Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 786-794).
Article Elena Serrano (2021) A Feminist Physiology: B. J. Feijoo (1676–1764) and His Advice for Those in Love. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 776-785).
Article Monica Azzolini (2021) Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 766-775).
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