Love Across Class
Rose Butler, Eve Vincent
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Love Across Class
Rose Butler, Eve Vincent
Explore how people from different class backgrounds meet, live with and love one another.
What does it mean to partner across class difference? This lucid and original book is the first to explore cross-class relationships in contemporary Australia, a society long-invested in the myth of egalitarianism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people's childhoods, as well as the adult lives couples have built together. These stories move between the mundane, the profound and the taboo, as interviewees reckon openly with the pain, pleasure, humour and contradiction that comes with forming a close relationship across class. From escaping one's class background and confronting class dissimilarity, to managing money and negotiating holidays, this book offers rich accounts of personal worlds shared across class as they are lived
Yet not only do those interviewed reflect on the classed dynamics and tensions present in their relationships and family…
What does it mean to partner across class difference? This lucid and original book is the first to explore cross-class relationships in contemporary Australia, a society long-invested in the myth of egalitarianism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people's childhoods, as well as the adult lives couples have built together. These stories move between the mundane, the profound and the taboo, as interviewees reckon openly with the pain, pleasure, humour and contradiction that comes with forming a close relationship across class. From escaping one's class background and confronting class dissimilarity, to managing money and negotiating holidays, this book offers rich accounts of personal worlds shared across class as they are lived.
Yet not only do those interviewed reflect on the classed dynamics and tensions present in their relationships and family life, they also strive to grasp the concept of class itself. Conversations about class at home ultimately led to scrutiny of other areas of society deeply implicated in class experience in Australia. Education, work, migration and assets are all examined here amid the backdrop of growing inequality. For many, forming a relationship across class brought these stark realities to the fore. This engaging book will stimulate readers to think about class in intimate, emotional and society-wide terms.
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Another book I read and loved this month, which speaks to this kind of knotty nuance, is Love Across Class by Rose Butler and Eve Vincent, a fascinating mix of research and reporting based on the authors’ interviews with 38 Australians.”
InReview“
If you, like me, are fascinated by the complexities of class, this is a thought-provoking and fascinating read. And at a time when wealth inequality is ballooning, it feels hugely relevant for understanding the world we’re in.”
InReview“
Today, gender, sexuality and race are the dominant prisms through which we refract Australian identity...But class hasn’t evaporated, as anthropologist Eve Vincent and sociologist Rose Butler demonstrate in Love Across Class, using love’s desires, negotiations and conflicts to map its contours. The result is riveting.”
The Saturday Paper“
The book reveals that class is not just social but psychological. It’s shaped by shame and guilt, and fashioned by history and policies that determine signifiers such as home ownership and education.... Beyond that, the underlying message of this important and endlessly illuminating study is that love’s intimacy is perhaps the best frame in which to restart an important conversation about class as it exists now.”
The Saturday Paper“
The two authors recorded the class trajectories of their respondents and, more interesting still, embraced their subjective experiences, taking account of emotions and values once considered more germane to storytelling than to social science. It is this engagement with the personal that makes their meticulous scholarly undertaking so captivating to a lay reader.”
Inside Story“
Through a close examination of what their class-crossed subjects say about themselves, they draw valuable insights into navigations peculiar to Australians.”
Inside StoryRose Butler
Rose Butler is a senior research fellow in Sociology in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. She studies class, social mobility and inequality in Australia, with a focus on youth and family. She is the author of Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods.
Eve Vincent
Eve Vincent is chair of Anthropology in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. She is the author of Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia and ‘Against Native Title’: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia. Her writing has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland and Inside Story.
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