Lesbian couples and gender scripts
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 24-03-14 14:59
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- Lesbian couples and gender scripts
- Gillian Dunne (1999) argues that the division of labour continues because of deeply ingrained "gender scripts."
- There are expectations or norms that are set out in different gender roles men and women in heterosexual couples are expected to play.
- Compared with heterosexual women, lesbians are more likely to:
- Describe their relationship as equal and share housework and childcare equally.
- Give equal importance to both partner's careers
- View childcare positively
- Dunne argues that this is because lesbian and heterosexual partners interact in different ways.
- Heterosexuals are under pressure to conform to masculine or feminine "gender scripts" by performing different types of domestics tasks that confirm their gender identities.
- This supports the radical feminist view that relationships between women are inevitably patriarchal and that women can only achieve equality in a same-sex relationship.
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- Heterosexuals are under pressure to conform to masculine or feminine "gender scripts" by performing different types of domestics tasks that confirm their gender identities.
- Dunne contrasts this with the situation among lesbian couples, where gender scripts don't operate to the same extent.
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