Who gets the best deal from marriage: women or men?
Who gets the best deal from marriage: women or men?
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DOI：
10.1177/144078302128756525
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Dempsey, K
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作者：
Dempsey, K
各种女权主义者——结构主义的、激进的、批判的、唯物主义的——一再声称婚姻对男性的好处多于女性，而且通常会损害女性的利益。现在有大量的经验证据支持他们的主张的主旨。然而，有些女权主义者采用后结构主义观点，认为许多对男性主导地位的描述过于确定性。该论点认为，人们对已经确保女性拥有更有价值婚姻的变革认识不足，这在很大程度上可能是由于女性行使了代理权。有人进一步认为，为了让妇女发起成功的变革，她们有必要但还不够意识到婚姻中特定部位出现的不平等和其他缺陷。在本研究中，我们对 45 名妻子和 40 名丈夫进行了询问，以了解他们是否同意男性通常从婚姻中受益最多，找出他们做出判断的理由，并确定女性是否比男性更意识到自己婚姻需要进行具体改变。还考虑了参与者在面对合作伙伴的反对时成功谈判具体变革的可能性。有人认为，在男性改变主意之前，女性只会获得有限的收益。
Feminists of various kinds - structural, radical, critical, materialist - have repeatedly asserted that marriage benefits men more than women and usually at women's expense. There is now a considerable body of empirical evidence that supports the major thrust of their claims. However, there are feminists adopting a post-structuralist perspective who argue that many accounts of men's dominance are overly deterministic. The argument goes that there is insufficient recognition of change that is already ensuring more rewarding marriages for women much of which is probably due to women's exercise of agency. It is further argued that, in order for women to initiate successful change, it is necessary but not sufficient for them to be aware of inequities and other shortcomings occurring at specific sites in their marriage. In the present study, a sample of 45 wives and 40 husbands were questioned to see if they agreed that men generally benefited the most from marriage, to find out what reasons they offered for their judgements and to establish if women were more conscious than men of the need for specific changes in their own marriages. The possibilities of actors negotiating successfully for specific change in the face of their partner's opposition are also considered. It is argued that women will make only limited gains until men experience a change of heart.