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Women's Confidants Outside Marriage: Shared or Competing Sources of Intimacy?
- Source :
- Sociology. 25:241-254
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1991.
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Abstract
- This paper is concerned with describing confidant relationships outside the marital relationship in a small sample of married women at the intensive stage of the family cycle. Such confidant relationships were by no means universal: only one third of the women in this study having at least one such relationship. In the context of an ideology which extols the couple as the locus of intimacy, such relationships can be seen as potentially threatening. In fact, such a view does not appear to be warranted. These relationships had very little to do with the level of intimacy in the marital relationship. Rather, they appeared to reflect the security of the respondents' base in the local community and their financial resources to create and maintain such relationships.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
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05 social sciences
050109 social psychology
Small sample
Marital relationship
Local community
050903 gender studies
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Ideology
Sociology
0509 other social sciences
Social psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14698684 and 00380385
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sociology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........31032e48be8c23df74e1e126d963410f