Hidden Kisses(2016)
Abstract:Young adults often express preferences for egalitarianism but often find themselves in conventional household arrangements. Using interview data from 122 working-class and middle-class cohabitors, the authors applied Komter's (1989) concepts of manifest, latent, and hidden power to examine the ways that contemporary young adults reinforce and modify gender norms surrounding the division of housework. Cohabiting women more often expect equal housework arrangements than men, regardless of class, yet middle-class women achieve equal divisions more often because they are better able to exercise manifest power than their working-class counterparts and because middle-class men appear more willing to cede to their partners' demands. In contrast, working-class women's desires to achieve equality are frequently rebuffed as they face greater resistance or defer to their partners' competing wishes. Although the exercise of manifest power is central to arranging housework, the hidden power of gender conventions pervades across class, leading many couples toward traditional arrangements.
Hidden Kisses(2016)
Imagine a world where consumers glide their hand over a contactless terminal, effortlessly paying for a sandwich thanks to a chip embedded in a water-proof, ceramic ring, or where they pay for a ride on the London Underground metro with a radio frequency identification chip hidden in a set of false nails. 041b061a72