Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships [electronic resource] : Ageless Love? /
McKenzie, L.author.
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction, and change in age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love.
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Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Researching Age-Dissimilar, Romantic Couples: Trends, Concepts, and Methods; Researching age-dissimilar relationships; Trends in age-dissimilar relationships; Conceptualising age-dissimilar relationships; Conceptualising romantic love; Contradiction, change, and cultural themes and understandings; Autonomy and relatedness; Methodology; Methodological considerations: conducting interviews; 2 Love through the Ages: Theorising and Historicising the Contradictions of Romantic and Age-Dissimilar Couples
Towards a 'romantic love ethic': changes to love, marriage, and the familyTheoretical and conceptual approaches to age-dissimilar relationships; Theorising autonomy and relatedness in age-dissimilar, romantic relationships; 3 'They're Just a Child': Uncovering the Boundaries ofa Normative Relationship through Dialogue on Media Depictions of Age-Dissimilar Couples; Why focus on dialogue?; Media depictions of age-dissimilar couples; How did participants talk about age-dissimilar relationships?; What makes a normative, age-dissimilar relationship?
Connections between the normative and the romantic4 'Age Is Just a Number': How Couples Challenged Chronological Age and Minimised Their Age Differences; The relationship or partner as unique or similar to others; Defining age: non-chronological conceptions of age; Defining age: theorising individual uniqueness; Defining age: conceptualising chronological and non-chronological age; Old age and decreased fertility: problems for non-chronological age?; The contradictions of age in relation to others
5 Free to Be Fated: Similarity, Compatibility, and Choice or Blind, Fated Love in Couple FormationColin's list; Who a relationship is with: similarity and compatibility; Who a relationship is with: blind love; Why a relationship is formed: free choice; Why a relationship is formed: fated love; Resolving contradictory understandings of couple formation; 6 Equal and Autonomous? Couples' Gendered Differences and Power Relations; Age (in)equality: Juliette's age-dissimilar relationships; Conceptualising power relations, equality, and autonomy
An unequal relationship? Power relations in male-older relationshipsAn autonomous ideal? Power relations in female-older relationships; Power relations in male-older relationships with additional social differences; Equality or inequality in partners' power relations?; 7 Conclusion: The Synthesis of Autonomy and Relatedness in Age-Dissimilar Couplings; The limitations of previous research; The possibilities of my approach: themes and understandings; Contextualising the cultural themes of autonomy and relatedness; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction, and change in age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love.
Social groups.
Family.
Sociology.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Anthropology.
Cultural studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Gender Studies.
Sociology, general.
Family.
Anthropology.
Cultural Studies.