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‘She Expected Her Women to be Pretty, Subservient, Dinner on the Table at Six’: Problematising the Narrative of Egalitarianism in Lesbian Relationships through Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse

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Mapping Intimacies

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Abstract

Anthony Giddens, in his analysis of the changing nature of intimate relationships, makes the assertion that:

Gay women and men have preceded most heterosexuals in developing relationships, in the sense that the term has come to assume today when applied to personal life. For they have had to ‘get along’ without traditionally established frameworks of marriage, in conditions of relative equality between partners.

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Barnes, R. (2013). ‘She Expected Her Women to be Pretty, Subservient, Dinner on the Table at Six’: Problematising the Narrative of Egalitarianism in Lesbian Relationships through Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse. In: Sanger, T., Taylor, Y. (eds) Mapping Intimacies. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313423_8

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