Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships

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.

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