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
In intimate relationships, young women are taking on a disproportionate load of invisible emotional labor, often supporting men through intense feelings of failure and isolation from friends. Many men described feeling “weird or like a waste of time” when opening up to male friends, instead reserving vulnerability for their relationships with... See more
The culture which holds, recognizes, and remembers the institutional balance is the culture of ideology. It takes its most obvious form in the domain of work but can (and usually does) operate just as powerfully in the construction of loving relations which get organized around the exercises and preservation of one or both parties' self-contained
... See moreremember that historically, woman’s participation in domestic life, both logistical and psychological, has been mandatory; men’s has been discretionary. This is not a criticism; it is a simple statement of fact.