dc.contributor.author |
Martinussen, Maree |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-06-14T02:31:18Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2018-12-12 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1360-7804 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/47063 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Studies of personal life over the past three decades have provided rich accounts of new forms of togetherness, with some pointing to a loosening of hierarchical lines between friends, kin, family, and long-term sexual partnership. While acknowledging the importance of these queering perspectives, I suggest that asking how people use ‘traditional’ relationship distinctions remains valuable. Reporting on research centred on practices of intimacy between women friends in early midlife, I examine how the competing demands of long-term sexual partnerships and family are managed alongside friendship, asking what forms of intimacy between friends are sanctioned or disparaged. I show that the organising logics of heteroromantic orders prevail, working through the contemporary cultural pushes of postfeminism and individualisation. As a result, friendships become constructed as bonus entities in relational life – necessary, but always supplementary to the mainstays of sexual partnership and familial relationships. |
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dc.publisher |
SAGE Publications |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Sociological Research Online |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Reason, Season, or Life? Heterorelationality and the Limits of Intimacy between Women Friends |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1177/1360780418816334 |
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pubs.begin-page |
1 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.end-page |
17 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
769128 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2019-04-21 |
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