The institution of love is particularly appealing for women because it masks the fact that society is stacked against them in almost always. So she's talking about how in modernity, like post World War one, basically lots of things have changed and the culture of love and gender identity has changed as well. She says, this culture did retain and even amplify the ideal of love as a power that can transcend daily life. Yet when it put the two political ideals of gender equality and sexual freedom at the center of intimacy, it's stripped love of the rituals of deference and the mystical aura in which it had hitherto been shrouded. All that was holy and love became profane; men were at last forced