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The Mating Game : How Gender Still Shapes How We Date / Ellen Lamont.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamont, Ellen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--California--San Francisco--Case studies.
- Sexual minorities.
- Youth--California--San Francisco--Case studies.
- Youth.
- Dating (Social customs)--California--San Francisco--Case studies.
- Dating (Social customs).
- LGBTQ+ people.
- LGBTQ+ dating.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lamont, Ellen, 1979- The mating game
- ISBN:
- 9780520970724
- 0520970721
- OCLC:
- 1120695831
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