Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships between Women and Men | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
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Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships between Women and Men | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?
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On anxiety or curiosity as responses to a partner's 'other'-ness
I mean, faced with the unknown of our partners, we can either be anxious — and this is true with the unknown of life. We can be anxious, we can want to close the gap, we can want to seek the familiar in that space, or we can leave that space open and respond
to it with curiosity. And
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