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1 online resource |
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Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life |
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Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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| Contents |
1. Researching Age-Dissimilar, Romantic Couples: Trends, Concepts, And Methods -- 2. Love Through The Ages: Theorising And Historicising The Contradictions Of Romantic And Age-Dissimilar Couples -- 3. 'They're Just A Child': Uncovering The Boundaries Of A Normative Relationship Through Dialogue On Media Depictions Of Age-Dissimilar Couples -- 4. 'Age Is Just A Number': How Couples Challenged Chronological Age And Minimised Their Age Differences -- 5. Free To Be Fated: Similarity, Compatibility, And Choice Or Blind, Fated Love In Couple Formation -- 6. Equal And Autonomous? Couples' Gendered Differences And Power Relations -- 7. Conclusion: The Synthesis Of Autonomy And Relatedness In Age-Dissimilar Couplings |
| Summary |
In recent years, there has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar, heterosexual romantic relationships. This interest is not new - these types of couples have been featured in Western media for decades, even centuries - yet qualitative research into such relationships has been limited. This book examines how the romantic relationships of age-dissimilar couples are understood. Based on a range of interviews, McKenzie argues that historical shifts toward greater personal autonomy in partner selection, within relationships, and in marriage and relationship dissolution have been greatly overstated. Through her focus on age-dissimilar couples, whose increasing prevalence have often been seen to be part of this shift, she suggests that these relationships are an avenue through which shared cultural understandings of relatedness, as well as individualism, might be further analysed. McKenzie argues for an approach that emphasises cultural continuity, and which accounts for complexity and contradiction in how age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love are understood. Examining key issues of kinship, ageing and emotion, Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships will appeal to scholars of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Family Studies and Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Couples -- Australia -- Psychology
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Age groups -- Australia
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Courtship -- Australia
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Mate selection -- Australia
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Interpersonal relations -- Australia
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Man-woman relationships -- Australia
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Age groups: adults.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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Sociology: customs & traditions.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Age groups
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Couples -- Psychology
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Courtship
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Interpersonal relations
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Man-woman relationships
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Mate selection
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Age groups: adults.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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Sociology.
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Social & cultural anthropology.
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Society.
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Australia
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137446770 |
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1137446773 |
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