Age-dissimilar couples and romantic relationships : ageless love? / Lara McKenzie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKenzie, Lara, 1985-

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couples--Australia--Psychology.

Couples.

Age groups--Australia.

Age groups.

Courtship--Australia.

Courtship.

Mate selection--Australia.

Mate selection.

Interpersonal relations--Australia.

Interpersonal relations.

Man-woman relationships--Australia.

Man-woman relationships.

Psychology.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 209 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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 r̀omantic love ethic': changes to love, marriage, and the family

Theoretical and conceptual approaches to age-dissimilar relationships

Theorising autonomy and relatedness in age-dissimilar, romantic relationships

3."T̀hey're Just a Child': Uncovering the Boundaries of a 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 romantic

4. Àge 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 Formation

Colin'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 relationships

An 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

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ebook version

ISBN:

9781137446770

1137446773

Publisher Number:

40025023806

99968395414

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