妻子
谈判
社会学
性别研究
心理学
焦点小组
社会环境
职位(财务)
单身母亲
日常生活
空格(标点符号)
社会心理学
发展心理学
社会科学
政治学
语言学
哲学
财务
人类学
法学
经济
出处
期刊:Sex Roles
[Springer Nature]
日期:1994-09-01
卷期号:31-31 (5-6): 309-328
被引量:58
摘要
The "environment" has often been taken as a backdrop for feminist research and theory, as a setting within which issues of feminist concern are played out. This environment, however, is not a neutral setting; rather, research over the past 15 years has evidenced the assumptions about "a woman's place" as a man's wife literally built into women's worlds. Space speaks, and the stories it tells center around particular and identifiable assumptions about gender and where a woman "should" be, when, and with whom. Unmarried women are in a unique position in this environment: they are subjected not only to the economic disadvantages and social subjugation of being a woman, but also to the social and economic drawbacks of being single in a couple-oriented society and in an environment they see as not built for them. Although research exists on the sexism in the physical environment, on women's economic and social position, and on singlehood, a need exists to bridge these areas to explore how single women experience their singlehood, their womanhood, and the environment in their everyday lives and decision making. I conducted in-depth interviews with 25 single women, 23 white and 2 African-American women, about their experiences of living single. This article, based on the results of those interviews and a series of focus group discussions, examines how single women negotiate and respond to their necessary environmental decisions about housing, transportation, and leisure activities in an environment not likely to be conducive to their ways of life.
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