Marriage strategy as a part of modern gender culture

The article is devoted to a consideration one of the phenomenon gender culture modern citizens – the marriage strategies. This work is based on materials of semi-tructured interviews with young Perm’s families. The information received is 13 case-studies – detailed stories about a marriage choice, a marriage party and elements of family’s daily life. Using the theory gender study and case-study the author divided that materials into some groups of marriage strategies. Criteria of this operation were features of a respondent’s gender identifications. This paper considers a perversion marriage strategy. The type of strategy understood as a woman’s gender domination in matrimonial practices in further marital life. And then the author describes two cases illustrating it. A narrative is the form of the strategy’s presentation. This is a storytelling of major marriage practices of characters with their comments. The first narrative describes a «soft» variant of the perversion marriage strategy. An initiative of a woman combines with her performance a traditional «woman’s» role: she does housework and uses man’s material resources. The characters have contrast personality traits. They take turns setting the rules in the relationship and sometimes objectify each other. The second narrative shows a «hard» variant of the perversion marriage strategy. In this story man has a need for the approval of his actions and a woman has it too. Also, she has tendencies to dramatize. The woman plays a leading role in a relationship. She controls a man’s lifeworld and lets him take minor decisions. Both narratives reconstruct two versions perversion marriage strategy and show one of the potential model modern gender culture.