ISBN:
9780520970724
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lamont, Ellen The Mating Game : How Gender Still Shapes How We Date
DDC:
306.730979461
Keywords:
Dating (Social customs) Case studies
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Dating (Social customs) ; California ; San Francisco ; Case studies
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- The Mating Game -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating -- 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love -- 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality -- 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance -- 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships -- 6. The More Things Change . . . -- 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution -- Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents -- Appendix 2: Interview Guide -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Despite enormous changes in patterns of dating and courtship in twenty-first-century America, contemporary understandings of romance and intimacy remain firmly rooted in age-old assumptions of gender difference. These tenacious beliefs now vie with cultural messages of gender equality that stress independence, self-development, and egalitarian practices in public and private life. Through interviews with heterosexual and LGBTQ individuals, Ellen Lamont's The Mating Game explores how people with diverse sexualities and gender identities date, form romantic relationships, and make decisions about future commitments as they negotiate uncertain terrain fraught with competing messages about gender, sexuality, and intimacy
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