ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that sexual, intimate and personal life is moulded by extensive social structures alongside being arranged by the intersection of gender and (hetero)sexuality. Gender scholars ought to consider social change, the structural as well as human agency, which opened the doors for one to consider multiple and changing femininities and masculinities. Gender is not monolithic because there is considerable diversity in how it is socially practiced. The book examines certain film discourses that expressed love, romance and intimacy. The two distinct films analysed are–Fifty Shades of Grey and The Girl on the Train–because love and romance underpinned them. The book draws on Michel Foucault's work on discourse to argue that discourse, a way of thinking and a language that contains particular meanings, is how men come to learn about, think about, and define love.
