Contents List of Tables List of Figures Introduction: Love "Apocalypse": Global Concerns about Marriage and Fertility Decline Alex Nelson, Victor de Munck and William Jankowiak Part I: Transformations of Intimacy: Individualization and Declines in Marriage & Fertility Chapter 1: Gendered Obstacles of Love and Fertility in Contemporary Cuba Heidi Härkönen Chapter 2: Love's Fallout: Fertility Decline and the Individualization of Intimacy in South Korea Alex J. Nelson Chapter 3: China's Independent Women and the Decline in Fertility William Jankowiak and Shelly Volsche Chapter 4: Individual choice? On rise of love and decline of fertility in urban middle class India Anna Romanowicz Chapter 5: From Courtship to Contingent Intimacies in Lithuania: Love Nomads and Porous dyads Victor de Munck and Ines Torras Part II - Intimate Innovations: Emerging Adaptations to the Individualization of Intimacy Chapter 6: Women's Householding in the Rural Andes: Othermothering, Chosen Families, & Demographic Transition Mary Elena Wilhoit Chapter 7: Becoming Childless in Reunified Berlin: Narratives of Low Fertility and Emergent Intimacies in Berlin Meghana Joshi Chapter 8: Choosing a World of Two: Childfree Intimacies in Contemporary Urban China Birgit Herrmann Chapter 9: Seeking a Spouse at the End of the World: "Marriage Hunting" and Neoliberal Capitalism in Japan Erika R. Alpert Notes on Contributors Index.