Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating 1
5. 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love 20
6. 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality 53
7. 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance 79
8. 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships 107
9. 6. The More Things Change . . . 141
10. 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution 174
11. Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents 185
12. Appendix 2: Interview Guide 191
13. Notes 201
14. References 213
15. Index 223