Abstract
This analysis explores narratives of love, marriage, and couple relationships among young female professionals from Mexico City. It seeks to address a dearth of knowledge about transformations of intimacy among the middle sectors of Mexican society. In this context, it raises questions about possible trends toward an individualization of intimate life and the dynamics of intimate citizenship experienced by young urban women. The argument is grounded in 21 life story interviews with young women employed in a range of white-collar occupations in Mexico City. The article highlights the salience of a “negotiated familism” in the interview narratives. While all participants saw family as an essential source of social and personal stability, they also experienced their lives as free from direct paternalistic control. Consequently, life projects built around notions of self-actualization, love, and self-fulfillment were central to their narratives. These findings point to partially individualistic modes of experience among young middle-class women while, at the same time, drawing attention to fundamental disjunctions from models of individualization developed in the Global Northwest.
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