Partners for Success? Undergraduate Women's Post-Feminist Constructions of Intimate Relationships

Autor/in	Blair, Elizabeth E.
Titel	Partners for Success? Undergraduate Women's Post-Feminist Constructions of Intimate Relationships
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 29 (2017) 6, S.671-690 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2016.1166184
Schlagwörter	Partnerships in Education; Success; Undergraduate Students; Womens Studies; Womens Education; Intimacy; Interpersonal Relationship; High Achievement; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Neoliberalism; Feminism; Context Effect; Resistance (Psychology); Student Attitudes; Student Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulpartnerschaft; Erfolg; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Intimität; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Qualitative Forschung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Feminismus; Resistenz; Schülerverhalten; Studienerfahrung
Abstract	Past research suggests that undergraduate women have faced educational cultures in which their college experience is defined through romantic experiences. This study expands this literature by investigating how heightened achievement expectations for undergraduate women inform their broader conceptions of intimate relationships, by asking the following research question: how do high-achieving undergraduate women conceptualise intimate relationships? Through qualitative analysis of 76 semi-structured interviews, I find that study participants reject gendered narratives of romance and instead preserve their achievement by constructing two ideal relationship logics: independent and companionate logics. I suggest that participants' conceptions of relationships have undergone a notable inversion: students' constructions of positive intimate relationships centre on the maintenance of academic achievement and autonomy, and show the long reach of neoliberal, "post-feminist" ideologies into women's everyday lives. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01