She is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and is finishing a book on difficulty, emotion, and contemporary art (forthcoming from Duke University Press). The preceding essay began as a short essay on Moira Lovell’s photographs in New Works: Pavilion Commissions 2008 (Leeds, 2008), and is part of Uncoupled, a work in progress exploring forms of intimacy and belonging outside the space of the romantic couple. Doyle writes From A Left Wing (http://fromaleftwing.blogspot.com), a feminist blog about soccer which she shares through the website Women Talk Sports (http://womentalksports.com). She is the treasurer of the Union Football league in downtown Los Angeles. This essay is dedicated to the Hackney Women’s Football Club, for whom she proudly played left back on the reserves squad in 2007-2008.