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dc.contributor.authorJurva, Raisa
dc.contributor.authorLahti, Annukka
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-15T12:19:12Z
dc.date.available2020-01-15T12:19:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationJurva, R., & Lahti, A. (2019). Challenging Unequal Gendered Conventions in Heterosexual Relationship Contexts through Affective Dissonance. <i>NORA : Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research</i>, <i>27</i>(4), 218-230. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2019.1682662" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2019.1682662</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_33480629
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67320
dc.description.abstractIn Nordic countries, intimate relationships are routinely compared against ideals of gender equality, even though equality is not always achieved in everyday life. In this article, we analyse interviews with women that lived in unconventional relationships: mid- to later-life women in relationships with younger men, and bisexual women who have had relationships with people of different genders. The women’s expectations of equality and reciprocity in heterosexual relationships collided with the lived reality of inequalities, causing affective dissonance. We identify three strategies that women use to deal with this affective dissonance. In the first strategy, unequal relationship patterns are rejected and displaced onto other people’s relationships. In the second strategy, interviewees legitimize the unequal situations in their own relationship by utilizing culturally available interpretative frameworks that circulate notions about gender and couple relationships. Both strategies provide a means for dealing with the unpleasant affective dissonance, but they make it difficult to demand change in the relationship. In the third strategy, the annoyance and hurt caused by inequality are not explained away. Confronting affective dissonance has politicizing potential: it allows women to actively challenge the inequalities in their relationships.en
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dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNORA : Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherepätasa-arvo
dc.subject.otheraffektiivinen dissonanssi
dc.subject.otherheterosexuality
dc.subject.othercouple relationships
dc.subject.otherbisexuality
dc.subject.otheraffective dissonance
dc.subject.otherinequality
dc.titleChallenging Unequal Gendered Conventions in Heterosexual Relationship Contexts through Affective Dissonance
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202001151268
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineSukupuolentutkimusfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineGender Studiesen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange218-230
dc.relation.issn0803-8740
dc.relation.numberinseries4
dc.relation.volume27
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2019 The Nordic Association for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysobiseksuaalisuus
dc.subject.ysoaffektiivisuus
dc.subject.ysoheteroseksuaalisuus
dc.subject.ysotasa-arvo
dc.subject.ysoparisuhde
dc.format.contentfulltext
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1830
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p11268
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1829
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2399
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2797
dc.rights.urlhttp://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
dc.relation.doi10.1080/08038740.2019.1682662
jyx.fundinginformationThis work was supported by the Academy of Finland funded project Just the Two of Us? Affective inequalities in intimate relationships [31213265711].
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