The Love Music of Hetersexual College Students: A Gender Analysis

• Main Authors: Jen-Rung Huang, 黃貞蓉
• Other Authors: 楊巧玲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39684694394422068124

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 性別教育研究所 === 94 === The purpose of this study is aimed to investigate how heterosexual college students (including male and female), trying to understand how they think and imagine about love. Based on the interview of twelve participants, the researcher attempts to analyze how they interact with their lovers and probe into what’s behind these views and behaviors. Is there anything related to “gender” and meaningful for study? In the section of “The Prelude of Love,” “The Mach of Love,” “The Variation of Love,” and “The Symphony of Love,” the researcher respectively explores heterosexual college students’ courting, the interaction and labor between the lovers, quarrels and conflicts, and the floating sexuality. The finding of this study: in the world of love, there is still gender difference. For example, the female interviewees have more expectation and fancy of love; they are more involved in the private world with their lovers; and they have more toleration toward their lover’s unfaithfulness. In the other hand, as to the interaction between the lovers, it is usually the men to take the leading role, such as restricting the other’s social activities and demanding the other’s dressing and eating habits. Furthermore, from their viewpoints of love, association and sex relationship, the researcher analyzes the gender power among them. Finally, there are some advices for the educators and the future researchers.