The Other Third Shift?: Women’s Emotion Work in Their Sexual Relationships

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breanne Fahs ◽  
Eric Swank
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Third Shift

scholarly journals Cruising Through Spaces: Exploring the Mediatization of Gay Cruising in the Philippines

Plaridel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-252
Author(s):  
Randy Solis
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Mobile Networking ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Number Of Sexual Partners ◽  
New Space ◽  
Interactional Process

The emergence of new communications technologies has provided a new space for initiating romantic and sexual relationships among gays who perceive social and physical places to be a traditional space that largely promotes connection among heterosexuals. Now, mobile networking applications like Grindr have made it easier for gay men to “cruise” and meet other men, and are seen to lead to the increasing number of sexual partners, being exposed to risks like sexually transmitted infections (STI), among others. Thus this study, framed within the theory of Mediatization – which critically analyzes the dialectic process in which both media and communications on one hand, and culture and society on the other, mutually shape and change each other in an interactional process – explores the question: How have gays’ way of cruising, or the initiation of romantic or sexual relations (among others), in the Philippines been mediatized across history?

Pride and shame in the creation of the ‘appropriate’ organisation

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Matthew Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Emotional Safety ◽  
The One

This chapter outlines how the different representations for social work practice provide conflicting sets of standards, ideals and goals for social work organisations. Some ‘institutional logics’ are imposed on social work services by politicians and through the media, which set the boundaries for public praise and shame for an organisation, thereby directing and shaping its identity. Within this context, this chapter introduces the idea of organisational emotional safety, in which organisations are constructed to avoid organisational shaming and rejection, on the one hand, and attract pride and acceptance, on the other. In an attempt to manage its image and reputation, organisational leaders engage in this form of emotion work to create and maintain a consistent set of organisational actions which ensures that it is safe from episodic shaming, while evoking pride within the organisation and acceptance without. A case example is provided to illustrate this argument that pride and shame are strategically used to create ‘appropriate’ organisations as defined by those with the power of definition.

Aphrodite in Blue (1936–1938)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James King
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
True Love

This chapter details events in Roland Penrose's life from 1936 to 1938. In late 1936, Roland and Valentine went their separate ways. After Valentine left for India, Roland had brief affairs, but he was certainly not prepared to encounter a goddess who would sweep him off his feet. On 21 June 1937, Roland was invited to a surrealist fancy dress party at the home of the Rochas family in Paris. In order to be as surrealist as possible, Roland had dyed his right hand and left foot blue, wore paint-encrusted trousers and a filthy old coat. Costumed in this scruffy way, he met American photographer Lee Miller. From the outset of their affair, Roland and Lee agreed that neither would prevent the other from having sexual relationships with others. For them, true freedom meant a lack of possessiveness. True love obviously transcended sex. Back in London, Roland would continue to have liaisons with a number of women; back in Egypt Lee would see other men. The couple recounted their adventures to each other.

“I’ll call you…” Communication frequency as a regulator of satisfaction and commitment across committed and casual sexual relationship types

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1123-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara J. Collins ◽  
Tori L. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Work ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Communication Satisfaction ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Friends With Benefits ◽  
Mediational Analysis ◽  
Relationship Types ◽  
Communication Frequency

Casual sexual relationships (CSRs) are common among young adults. Although it is a widely discussed topic in the popular media, little empirical work has examined the expectations related to communication within these relationships. Moreover, few studies have made comparative examinations across various relationship types. Through two studies, we first identified the differences in communication, satisfaction, and commitment across relationship types. Then we examined communication frequency as a regulator of satisfaction and commitment across relationship types. In Study 1, participants responded to a hypothetical relationship scenario depicting either a committed relationship (CR), friends with benefits (FWB), or a booty call/fuck buddy relationship (BC/FB); they indicated how committed and satisfied they would feel as well as how frequently they would communicate with the partner. Participants in Study 2 reported on these variables in their most recently terminated relationship. Overall, we found the highest frequencies of commitment and communication in CRs; BCs/FBs and other similar CSRs had the lowest. FWBs often fell between the other two categories. Satisfaction did not differ reliably across relationship types. A serial mediational analysis revealed that the more a relationship was considered to be a CR, the more partners communicated, which was associated with more satisfaction and, in turn, commitment. Our findings highlight the distinctions between expectations within FWB relationships, compared to other relationships types, suggesting that they fall somewhere between CRs and other CSRs on commitment and relational expectations. In addition, the results support the idea that individuals intentionally regulate their communication to maintain the expected level of commitment within a relationship.

scholarly journals Sex, Sexuality and Negotiating Africanness in Nairobi

Africa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Spronk
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Other ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
African Heritage ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Belonging

This article presents two themes: how young professionals personally experience sexuality and issues of cultural belonging or identification; and how these issues are interrelated in their lives. I identify ways in which ‘young professionals’ as a social group are in the vanguard in respect of societal reconfigurations of gender, sexuality and culture. I argue that this group embodies post-colonial transformations concerning reconfigurations in gender, sexuality and culture. I work out the complexities of sexuality and culture by focusing on public debates about African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality, on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-definitions on the other. Finally, I explore how sexuality has become central to self-expression and how cultural self-identification is an ambiguous concern for young professionals.

"The Other Side of Silence": Matrimonial Conflict and the Divorce Court in George Eliot's Fiction

1995 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Many

The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 and the Divorce Court it created were hailed by some contemporary observers as "one of the greatest social revolutions of our time." Among the many "revolutionary" consequences of this new Court was an increased legal and social recognition of psychological cruelty in marriage and, through the journalistic reportage of its proceedings, the creation of a new reading public that had become fascinated with tales of marital strife. This essay suggests and examines a correlation between these legal and social changes and the emphasis found in George Eliot's fiction on silence as a sign of matrimonial conflict. Throughout Eliot's fiction, from "Janet's Repentance" in Scenes of Clerical Life, through to Felix Holt and Middlemarch, and culminating in the portrayal of Henleigh Grandcourt in Daniel Deronda, there is a progressive emphasis on the nonphysical signs of matrimonial conflict and, in particular, on the oppressive power of silence in sexual relationships. Eliot's use of silence to evoke this experience reflects a new social awareness of psychological cruelty in marriage, one that was being formally recognized in the law courts at this time. But by hinting at a form of matrimonial cruelty so terrible that it must remain veiled, Eliot's use of silence also functions as a rhetorical device that whets a new public appetite for tales of matrimonial conflict.

scholarly journals Emotional apprenticeships: reflection on the role of academic practice in the construction of 'the field'

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celayne Heaton Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Emotional Tone ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Emotional Style ◽  
Hierarchical Relation

This contribution is concerned with the 'emotional regime(s)' (e.g. Reddy 2002) of academic anthropology, and the processes and practices through which 'the field' continues to be constructed as an entity separate from everyday life. 'The field' has been the subject of considerable attention in recent years, as have the textual, social, and conceptual strategies of distanciation involved in its construction. The role of emotions and emotion work in this process, on the other hand, has generally been overlooked. In this article, I draw on my own changing emotions towards the subjects of research during my postgraduate training to show how particular feelings towards the subject of research were legitimised and their expression and sensation encouraged-while others were delegitimised and discouraged-through educational practices such as seminars. The article shows that the transformation in emotional tone (and experience) involved-not the suppression of emotion, as has often been argued in anthropological writings-but a change in emotional style. The paper argues that this change in emotional style-and the 'emotional regime' that supported it-contributed to the 'Othering' of the subjects of research, as well as recasting researcher and researched in a hierarchical relation to each other. Thus, the article suggests that emotional apprenticeship in the academic setting plays a key role in the enduring construction of 'the field' as involving distance and separation from personal areas of activity.

Eros at Dusk

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Wasdin
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stable Marriage ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Poetic Representation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Evening Star

This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts make it clear that the brief, idealized, and eroticized moment of the wedding stands in contrast to the long-lasting and harmonious agreement of the marriage. At times, these genres share traditional forms of erotic persuasion, but at other points, one genre purposefully alludes to the other to make a bride seem like a girlfriend or a girlfriend like a bride. Explicit divergences remind the audience of the different trajectories of the wedding, which will hopefully transition into a stable marriage, and the love affair, which is unlikely to endure with mutual affection. Important themes include the threshold; the evening star; plant and animal metaphors; heroic comparisons; reciprocity and the blessings of the gods; and sexual violence and persuasion. The consistency and durability of this intergeneric relationship demonstrates deep-seated conceptions of legitimate and illegitimate sexual relationships.

scholarly journals Sex as an expression of hospitality - Theological investigation amongst some Africans

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Baloyi Magezi Elijah
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Other ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Gift ◽  
African Context ◽  
Abuse Of Women

Besides the fact that sexual relationships have been understood and misunderstood in different ways, the possibility of sexual abuse remains a big issue amongst African South Africans. It has been sexual relationships, amongst other factors, that have been widely used by one gender to dominate the other. Sometimes this happens because women, because of their defencelessness, are perceived to enjoy the kind of sexual abuse they are subjected to. It is from this kind of attitude that some people, particularly men, come to the conclusion that sexual intercourse is another form of hospitality that can be offered to women. This kind of thinking has been fuelled by the traditional rejection of singlehood or widowhood and other related situations that women find themselves in. It is for this reason that polygamy, levirate marriage and cohabitation have crept into the minds of some men. This paper will attempt to unveil how thinking of sexual intercourse as extending a form of hospitality has encouraged the domination and abuse of women in the African context. The study will also unveil how the gift of sex has been misunderstood and misinterpreted in order to subject women to sexual violence and harassment. Afgesien van die feit dat seksuele verhoudinge op verskillende wyses verstaan en misverstaan is, bly die moontlikheid van seksuele misbruik ‘n groot probleem onder Suid-Afrikaanse Afrikane. Dit was nog altyd seksuele verhoudinge, sowel as ander faktore, wat wyd deur een geslag gebruik is om die ander geslag te domineer. Soms gebeur dit omdat gedink word dat vroue, as gevolg van hulle weerloosheid, die soort seksuele misbruik waaraan hulle blootgestel word geniet. Voortvloeiend hieruit ontstaan die houding dat sommige mense, veral mans, tot die gevolgtrekking kom dat seksuele gemeenskap ‘n vorm van gasvryheid is wat vroue behoort te geniet. Hierdie soort denke word aangehelp deur die tradisionele verwerping van enkellopende vroue en weduwees en ander soortgelyke situasies waarin vroue hulleself bevind. Dit is om hierdie rede dat poligamie, swaershuwelike en saambly sommige mans se denke insluip. Hierdie artikel sal poog om aan te toon hoe ‘n denkbeeld van seksuele omgang as ‘n vorm van gasvryheid die dominasie en mishandeling van vroue in die Afrika-konteks versterk is. Die studie sal ook aantoon hoe die “geskenk” van seksuele omgang vroue meer blootstel aan seksuele geweld en mishandeling.

scholarly journals Why do men marry and why do they stray?

2007 ◽  
Vol 274 (1618) ◽  
pp. 1643-1649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Winking ◽  
Hillard Kaplan ◽  
Michael Gurven ◽  
Stacey Rucas
Keyword(s):  
Great Apes ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mating Effort ◽  
Paternal Investment ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
Using Data

Humans are quite unusual compared to other great apes in that reproduction typically takes place within long-term, iteroparous pairings—social arrangements that have been culturally reified as the institution of marriage. With respect to male behaviour, explanations of marriage fall into two major schools of thought. One holds that marriage facilitates a sexual division of labour and paternal investment, both important to the rearing of offspring that are born helpless and remain dependent for remarkably long periods (provisioning model). And the other suggests that the main benefits which men receive from entering into marriage derive from monopolizing access to women's fertility (mating effort model). In this paper, we explore extramarital sexual relationships and the conditions under which they occur as a means of testing predictions derived from these two models. Using data on men's extramarital sexual relationships among Tsimane forager–horticulturists in lowland Bolivia, we tested whether infidelity was more common when men had less of an opportunity to invest in their children or when they risked losing less fertility. We found that Tsimane men appear to be biasing the timing of their affairs to when they are younger and have fewer children, supporting the provisioning model.

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