Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships, 2015
Ageless Love?
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Series

There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction, and change in age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love.

Introduction 1. Researching Age-Dissimilar, Romantic Couples: Trends, Concepts, And Methods 2. Love Through The Ages: Theorising And Historicising The Contradictions Of Romantic And Age-Dissimilar Couples 3. 'They're Just A Child': Uncovering The Boundaries Of A Normative Relationship Through Dialogue On Media Depictions Of Age-Dissimilar Couples 4. 'Age Is Just A Number': How Couples Challenged Chronological Age And Minimised Their Age Differences 5. Free To Be Fated: Similarity, Compatibility, And Choice Or Blind, Fated Love In Couple Formation 6. Equal And Autonomous? Couples' Gendered Differences And Power Relations 7. Conclusion: The Synthesis Of Autonomy And Relatedness In Age-Dissimilar Couplings

Lara McKenzie is a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Her research interests include age-dissimilar relationships, romantic love, age, gender, Australian society, neoliberalism, higher education, blended learning, and government/non-government school inequalities.