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Coming Home to Love and Class

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  • Paul Johnson
  • Steph Lawler

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This article explores how romantic love, desire, and social class are mutually influencing factors in the formation and enactment of heterosexual intimate relationships. Using qualitative interview data from a study of heterosexuality and love we analyse some of the ways in which social class structures love relationships and, furthermore, how such relationships are a site in which class is ‘done’. In particular, we explore a central paradox of the heterosexual love relationship: while heterosexuality relies upon the difference it creates in terms of sex and gender one other form of difference - class difference - is understood to be an obstacle to, if not antithetical to, a ‘successful’ relationship. Indeed, as we will show, this form of difference, for some people at least, is one that must be guarded and defended against.

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  • Paul Johnson & Steph Lawler, 2005. "Coming Home to Love and Class," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 10(3), pages 67-79, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:10:y:2005:i:3:p:67-79
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1116
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    1. Lavie-Ajayi, Maya & Krumer-Nevo, Michal, 2013. "In a different mindset: Critical youth work with marginalized youth," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 35(10), pages 1698-1704.
    2. Jenny van Hooff & Stephen P Morris, 2021. "Sexual Wellbeing and Social Class in Britain: An Analysis of Nationally Representative Survey Data," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 26(2), pages 288-308, June.
    3. Jesse Potter, 2019. "Work and Intimacy: Reassessing the Career/Couple Norm through a Narrative Case Approach," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 24(3), pages 261-277, September.

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