« En parler à tout le monde », sauf aux mecs hétéros : le genre des confident·es dans les relations amoureuses hétérosexuelles et homosexuelles
If individuals speak about their romantic life to others, they do not do so with everyone. The existing literature has often depicted women as more prone to speak about their personal life than men. However, the mechanisms behind this difference are loosely identified. With this paper, I aim to make...
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| Language: | fra |
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Genre, Sexualité et Société
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Genre, Sexualité et Société |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/gss/8220 |
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| Summary: | If individuals speak about their romantic life to others, they do not do so with everyone. The existing literature has often depicted women as more prone to speak about their personal life than men. However, the mechanisms behind this difference are loosely identified. With this paper, I aim to make them visible on a specific topic: romantic disappointments. Using the data of the EPIC survey as a starting point, before relying on 43 interviews, I will underline that their management cannot be summarized by an opposition between “men not speaking about it” and “women speaking about it a lot”. The case of non-heterosexuals provides with an explanation of these differences. Indeed, if they differ from heterosexuals in their choice of confidants, they do so differently depending on their sex. I will then show that articulating confidence related risks and gender sociabilities allow us to explain both these discrepancies and the choices of confidants made by heterosexuals. |
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| ISSN: | 2104-3736 |