Gale Researcher Guide for: Intimate Partnerships

By Shehan and Constance L.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Cengage Learning - Gale
• Release date: Aug 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781535860185

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Intimate Partnerships

Constance L. Shehan

University of Florida

Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law

Constance L. Shehan is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Florida. She served as chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law (2006 to 2012). She studies gender, work, families, aging, and health and has published widely on household labor; women’s employment, work, and health; and parent-child relationships. She coauthored Marriages and Families: Reflections of a Gendered Society and Gendering Bodies and edited Through the Eyes of the Child: Revisioning Children as Active Agents of Family Life and The Family Issues Reader. She was editor in chief of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies and is editor of Journal of Family Issues. Shehan is a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations.

Sociologists study various forms of intimate relationships among adults—including heterosexual marriage, LGBTQ marriage, and nonmarital cohabitation. This article presents an introduction to these subfields. A historical examination of changes in marriage and divorce since the middle