We integrate theoretical traditions on the social construction of gender, heterosexuality, and marriage with research and theory on emotion work to guide a qualitative investigation of how married people understand and experience sex in marriage. Results, based on 62 in-depth interviews, indicate that married men and women tend to believe that sex is integral to a good marriage and that men are...

Why has progress toward gender equality in the workplace and at home stalled in recent decades? A growing body of scholarship suggests that persistently gendered workplace norms and policies limit men's and women's ability to create gender egalitarian relationships at home. In this article, we build on and extend prior research by examining the extent to which institutional constraints, includi...

The purpose of the present study was to report on the psychometric properties of a revised version of a brief inventory designed to screen and assess personality disorders. The short form of the Coolidge Axis II Inventory (SCATI) is a 70-item, self-report, form of the 250-item Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI). On a community sample of 588 adults (range=16-88 years), the median internal scale r...

Building on research that links gender to differences in well-being and differences in stress exposure and vulnerability, the current study examines how coping styles are gendered in ways that may contribute to sex differences in depressive symptoms and delinquent behavior. The study disaggregates stress measures to reflect gender differences in the experience of stress, examining whether avoid...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which the gendered division of labour persists within households in the USA in regard to meal planning/preparation and food shopping activities. DESIGN Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data. SETTING 2007-2008 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. SUBJECTS Sub-sample of 3195 adults at least 20 years old who had a spouse or partner. R...

This chapter introduces the notion of imagined communities as a way to better understand the relationship between second language learning and identity. It is argued that language learners’ actual and desired memberships in imagined communities affect their learning trajectories, influencing their agency, motivation, investment, and resistance in the learning of English. These influences are ex...

E. J. Hughes, D. J. Sharp, D. L. Hill, A. Wink, J. V. Hajnal, and S. J. Counsell Robert Steiner MRI Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, England, United Kingdom, Cognitive Neuroimaging Group, MRC Clinical sciences Centre, Imperial college, London, England, United Kingdom, The London Bioscience Innovation Centre, IXICO ltd, London, England, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College...

While there is an association of greater short-term weight gain with childbearing among women, less is known about longer-term weight gain, whether men have similar gains, and how this varies by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position. Our cohort consisted of a nationally representative sample of 7,356 Americans with oversampling of Black and Hispanic populations. We estimated the association...