期刊
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
卷 77, 期 2, 页码 542-556出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12178
关键词
emotion work; fairness and equality; gay; lesbian; bisexual; transgender; intimacy; qualitative research
资金
- National Institute on Aging [R01-AG17455]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [5 T32 HD007081]
Knowledge about how gender shapes intimacy is dominated by a heteronormative focus on relationships involving a man and a woman. In this study, the authors shifted the focus to consider gendered meanings and experiences of intimacy in same-sex and different-sex relationships. They merged the gender-as-relational perspectivethat gender is co-constructed and enacted within relationshipswith theoretical perspectives on emotion work and intimacy to frame an analysis of in-depth interviews with 15 lesbian, 15 gay, and 20 heterosexual couples. They found that emotion work directed toward minimizing and maintaining boundaries between partners is key to understanding intimacy in long-term relationships. Moreover, these dynamics, including the type and division of emotion work, vary for men and women depending on whether they are in a same-sex or different-sex relationship. These findings push thinking about diversity in long-term relationships beyond a focus on gender difference and toward gendered relational contexts.
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