本研究發現，臺灣高知識、高教育程度且通曉女性主義論述的受訪者，在家庭資源分配不均、社會的性別偏見／歧視的壓力下，在經濟上依賴其伴侶，心理上依附男性的情況仍為相當普遍。受訪者亦深受「性別角色期待」、「愛情神話」和「性腳本」的影響，複製了性別角色刻板印象。在親密關係中「自我消音」，持續地被其伴侶（男性）剝削／壓迫。
最後，受訪者在親密關係中「妥協」或是「反抗」，在「理想的」女性主義與「現實的」異性戀親密關係之間的狹縫走出一條屬於自己的路。縱使有些受訪者仍在親密關係受到壓迫，但她們也逐漸意識到親密關係中的權力不對等，將有機會促使她們領悟到「親密關係」乃父權社會的根基。而欲斬斷父權的「根」，必定得視自身為「母系」的「根」。並須由女性主義者的覺醒，登高一呼，方有建立一個整體女性不再受到壓迫的社會的可能。
論文外文摘要：
This research attempts to explore unmarried Taiwan feminist’s contradiction and dilemma in heterosexual intimacy through the perspective of “radical feminism”. Research data were collected from 13 heterosexual women who were thinking and acting as qualified feminists, by using in-depth, semi-structured interview of qualitative research. This research is about to explore how these women were affected by feminism, and then how they practiced it in their intimate relationship, in which they might encounter contradiction and dilemma.
In my research, I found that these women in Taiwan who had high education and thoroughly understanding feminism, were economic and psychological depended on men because of the uneven distribution of resources from their families, or the social discrimination against women. The most notable finding is that these women reproduced the gender stereotype themselves unconsciously owing to “gender role expectation” “love myth” and “sexual scripts”. The results showed that these women in heterosexual intimacy were “self-in-relation” and continuously oppression/exploitation by males which were their lovers.
Nevertheless, these women tried to compromise or to resist in their intimate relationship, struggling between the “ideal feminism” and “reality feminism” so that they could find the way of their own. However, till now some women have been oppressed in heterosexual intimacy, though they gradually realized that the power of females and males were totally unequal, so they could comprehend that “heterosexual intimacy” was the foundation of Patriarchy.
Ultimately, if we want to cut off the root of patriarchy, we must see ourselves as the root of Matriarchy. In addition, there will be a society that no woman is under oppression at long last while the feminists are unitedly rising up.
