‘For Better or Worse?’: Heterosexuality Reinvented

Jenny Hockey, Victoria Robinson and Angela Meah

Sociological Research Online, 2002, vol. 7, issue 2, 68-79

Abstract: Based upon a series of focus group discussions carried out in East Yorkshire, this article contributes to debates on both the nature and theorising of heterosexual relationships that have recently been investigated from diverse perspectives. These group discussions represent the launch of the first major empirical study of heterosexuality and ageing that has been undertaken in the UK. In drawing upon preliminary data from these focus groups, our findings reinforce and add to the challenging of a representation of heterosexuality which is both monolithic and inflexible, by exploring accounts of peoples’ actual lived experiences. Through this research we begin to generate a theoretical approach which highlights the complexity of these lived realities. We particularly explore the intersections of gender, age, class and family location. In doing so, we pinpoint differences, contradictions, but also continuities, in the ways in which people discuss and comment on their own and other people's perceptions and experiences of heterosexuality.

Keywords: Continuity/change; Difference; Gender; Heterosexualities; Life-course (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.728

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