TY - BOOK ID - 64713665 TI - Commuter spouses : new families in a changing world PY - 2019 SN - 9781501731181 1501731181 1501731203 150173119X 9781501731204 9781501731198 PB - Ithaca, New York ; London : ILR Press, DB - UniCat KW - Commuter marriage KW - Work and family KW - Long-distance relationships KW - 316.356.2 <73> KW - LDRs (Long-distance relationships) KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Commuter couples KW - Commuting couples KW - Couples, Commuting KW - Long-distance marriage KW - Two-city couples KW - Marriage KW - 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64713665 AB - What can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live apart to meet the demands of their dual professional careers. Based on the personal stories of almost one-hundred commuter spouses, Lindemann shows how these atypical relationships embody (and sometimes disrupt!) gendered constructions of marriage in the United States. These narratives of couples who physically separate to maintain their professional lives reveal the ways in which traditional dynamics within a marriage are highlighted even as they are turned on their heads. Commuter Spouses follows the journeys of these couples as they adapt to change and shed light on the durability of some cultural ideals, all while working to maintain intimacy in a non-normative relationship.Lindemann suggests that everything we know about marriage, and relationships in general, promotes the idea that couples are focusing more and more on their individual and personal betterment and less on their marriage. Commuter spouses, she argues, might be expected to exemplify in an extreme manner that kind of self-prioritization. Yet, as this book details, commuter spouses actually maintain a strong commitment to their marriage. These partners illustrate the stickiness of traditional marriage ideals while simultaneously subverting expectations. ER -