By Wendy Langford
ISBN-10: 0203053109
ISBN-13: 9780203053102
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This e-book seems to be at how heterosexual relationships fairly paintings. Author?? argues that the method of falling in love is simply a short vacation from the gender roles which fast reassert themselves of their previous kinds. subject matters coated contain romantic love, the matter of wish and the difficulty with love.
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In the following extract, for example, Ruth describes the danger and excitement of ‘falling’: Ruth: It seems to me a time of er chaos, you know? Erm, and I think it’s much more about your own feelings than actually about the other person. Erm, and it’s a very exciting, exhilarating thing to go through… And it can feel so dangerous which might be part of the pleasure. Erm, I mean when I’ve been falling in love, you know, I’ve had things like I haven’t been able to sleep, you know, and I’ve got up in the middle of the night and stared out of the window.
Some writers have addressed the question of gender differences in love at a theoretical level, but have concluded that these are evidence of ‘complimentarity’ rather than power differentials. Francesca Cancian, for example, echoes earlier functionalist models of coupledom which contrast the ‘instrumental’ role of the male breadwinner with the ‘expressive’ role of his wife (see Parsons and Bales 1956). She claims that ‘women and men prefer different styles of love that are consistent with their gender role.
Victor Seidler (1989, 1991, 1994), for example, argues that men are both controlling and ‘emotionally undeveloped’ in their personal lives. However, he portrays men’s problematic behaviour as a side effect of an assumed greater involvement in an alienating ‘public realm’. Like Cancian and Tannen, Seidler thus makes the mistake of equating actuality with abstract thought systems. The dynamics of heterosexual love then appear merely as a reflection of men’s and women’s supposedly discreet ‘private’ and ‘public’ roles, rather than as means by which gender identities and the social order are constructed and reproduced.
Revolutions of the Heart. Gender, Power and the Delusions of Love by Wendy Langford
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