It Doesn’t Always Have to be the Dual Female Life Trajectory

Authors

  • Gabi Aßhorn Neuss

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/307

Keywords:

Beruf, Biografie, Familie, Partnerschaft/Ehe, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

In her empirical study, Barbara Keddi asks how young women between the ages of 18 and 35 live, what manner of life they choose for themselves, and how they biographically negotiate their relationships and processes of family planning. The author distinguishes her study from others by not assuming that the life contexts of young women are exclusively structured by a dual trajectory; instead, she accentuates the diversity of female lives and the plurality of gender relationships. The idea of “life themes”—one of the results of her study—can systematically explain why young women and their partners act the way they do in relationships and processes of family planning. Moreover, the “life themes” qualify the meaning of major determinants like sex, education, and region.

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Published

2004-11-09

Issue

No. 14 (2004): Väter Mütter

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2004 Gabi Aßhorn

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