Is there a gender asymmetry in 'emotion work' within heterosexual relationships? If so what role does this play within gendered power relations?
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Have a little read: ... Is there a gender asymmetry in 'emotion work' within heterosexual relationships? If so what role does this play within gendered power relations? In this essay the following topics will be discussed, gender asymmetry, emotion work and what role this plays in gender power relations in the context of heterosexual couples. Duncombe and Marsden in 1993 use local survey evidence to illustrate the gender difference or 'asymmetry' in intimate emotional behaviour. It is a commonly known belief that in the first stages of a relationship, it is passionate, loving, full of thought for each other and romantic, however Mansfield and Collard (1988: 223) suggest that after the so called honeymoon period, "Couples seek incompatible emotional goals in marriage most (though not all) men seek a life in common with their wives, a home life, a physical and psychological base, somewhere to set out from and return to - in contrast, the wives wanted a
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