1st Edition
Being Married, Doing Gender A Critical Analysis of Gender Relationships in Marriage
By Caroline Dryden
Copyright 1999
168 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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In one of the first psychological studies of women in heterosexual relationships, Caroline Dryden examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles. Unlike the developmental literature in which women are studied only as mothers, or the clinical literature which has little theoretical basis, Being Married, Doing Gender places case study material in the context of the power... Read more
Chapter 1 A Feminist Psychological Approach to Marriage Research; Chapter 2 A Feminist Biography of Married Couples; Chapter 3 Wives and the Struggle to Construct Relational Equality; Chapter 4 Husbands and the Struggle to Defend Relational Inequality; Chapter 5 Marital Identity Versus Gender Identity — a Crisis for Husbands; Chapter 6 The Wasteland at the Crossroads of a Marriage; conclusion;
Biography
Caroline Dryden is a senior lecturer in communication studies and psychology in the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
