Intimate Inequalities: Millennials' Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Times

Social observers often criticize millennials' romantic and sexual intimacy, but we know little about their own hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs. Intimate Inequalities uses millennials' stories to explore how they navigate gender, race, social class, sexuality, and age identities and expectations in their relationships, taking an intersectional approach to examining how they challenge or uphold social inequalities. It provides an in-depth look into the intimate lives of one group of millennials living in the US, demystifying what actually goes on behind closed doors and arguing that their private lives can reveal much about their ability to navigate inequalities more broadly.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 16 July 2021
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

When it comes to the topic of romantic and sexual intimacy, social observers are often quick to throw criticisms at millennials. However, we know little about millennials' own hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs in their relationships from the perspectives of millennials themselves.

Intimate Inequalities uses millennials' own stories to explore how they navigate gender, race, social class, sexuality, and age identities and expectations in their relationships. Situating millennials' lives within contemporary social and cultural conditions in the United States, Intimate Inequalities takes an intersectional approach to examining how millennials challenge—or rather, uphold—social inequalities in their lives as they come into their own as full adults.

Intimate Inequalities provides an in-depth look into the intimate lives of one group of millennials living in the United States, demystifying what actually goes on behind closed doors, and arguing that millennials' private lives can reveal much about their ability to navigate inequalities in their lives more broadly.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 236 x 156 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781978823907