For Better or Worse

Heterosexuality Reinvented

Bibliographic Data

ID2643280
AuthorsJenny Hockey (corresponding author), Victoria Robinson (0000-0002-7610-9884), Angela Meah (0000-0001-7177-2890)
Year2002
Volume7
Issue2
Pages68-79
Publication date2002-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.728
OpenAlexW2171805439
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited24

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

Epistemology · Focus group · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy