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Ana J. Cuevas is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Literature and Communication at University of Colima, Mexico. Ana’s research focuses on the place of love in the formation of couples, the reasons for which people decide to split and how love imaginaries change after couple breakdown. Her latest research compares, from a three-generation approach, the love experiences of heterosexual men and women in two Mexican regions. Among the most important findings of this research are that love language used by most men and women is very consistent, that the main differences between them are in the cultural practices of love and the identification of emergent love cultural changes among the youngest and most educated men and women. She is currently co-editing with Sampson Blair the book Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions which forms part of the book series Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research published by Emerald Publishing. She is also to publish her book La Formación de Parejas: emociones, cercanía de atributos y brechas de edad (The formation of couples: emotions, homogamy and age-discrepancy) edited by the University of Guadalajara. Her latest publications include: 1) Age homogamy and heterogamy in three generation of men and women in Mexico where she analyses the gender inequalities and weak role of love in the formation of couples. 2) The reasons for which young and medium adults use Tinder. The study sheds light on users’ longing for romantic partners and the use of the application to make friends, have casual sex and leisure. 3) Conjugality and intimacy in Latin America where she offers a thorough revision of the literature of conjugality and intimacy in this region. 4) Intimacy and couple relationships where she and a group of colleagues propose a theoretical discussion on intimacy and its links to conjugality, gender roles, care, sexuality and use of digital technology.
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