Odd Couples

Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco's interv...

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Päätekijä: Muraco, Anna
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Julkaistu: Duke University Press 2021
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description Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco's interviews, the work challenges two widespread assumptions: that men and women are fundamentally different and that men and women can only forge significant bonds within romantic relationships. Intersectional friendships challenge a variety of social norms, Muraco says, including the limited roles that men and women are expected to play in one another's lives. Each chapter uses these boundary-crossing relationships to highlight how key social constructs such as family, politics, gender, and sexuality shape everyday interactions. Friendship itself—whether intersectional or not—becomes the center of the analysis, taking its place as an important influence on the social behavior of adults.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-342422022-05-02T10:07:55Z Odd Couples Muraco, Anna Sociology Gay Gender role Heterosexuality Homosexuality Intersectionality Lesbian LGBT Sexual orientation Social norm Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco's interviews, the work challenges two widespread assumptions: that men and women are fundamentally different and that men and women can only forge significant bonds within romantic relationships. Intersectional friendships challenge a variety of social norms, Muraco says, including the limited roles that men and women are expected to play in one another's lives. Each chapter uses these boundary-crossing relationships to highlight how key social constructs such as family, politics, gender, and sexuality shape everyday interactions. Friendship itself—whether intersectional or not—becomes the center of the analysis, taking its place as an important influence on the social behavior of adults. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:33 2020-04-01T12:49:54Z 2012-04-11 book 648157 OCN: 787876270 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30260 9780822395119 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34242 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30260/1/648157.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30260/1/648157.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30260/1/648157.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822395119 10.1215/9780822395119 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822395119 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 100987 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Gender role
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Intersectionality
Lesbian
LGBT
Sexual orientation
Social norm
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Odd Couples
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topic Sociology
Gay
Gender role
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Intersectionality
Lesbian
LGBT
Sexual orientation
Social norm
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Gender role
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Intersectionality
Lesbian
LGBT
Sexual orientation
Social norm
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