Gender and Couple Relationships
This provocative volume is comprised of psychological, socioeconomic, and cultural perspectives on couple dynamics, particularly gender dynamics, and the future of marriage. Featuring data on married, cohabitating, male/female, and same-sex couples, the a
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Susan M. McHale • Valarie King Jennifer Van Hook • Alan Booth Editors
Gender and Couple Relationships
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Editors Susan M. McHale Social Science Research Institute The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA
Jennifer Van Hook Population Research Institute The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA
Valarie King Department of Sociology and Criminology The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA
Alan Booth Department of Sociology and Criminology The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA
ISSN 2192-9157 National Symposium on Family Issues ISBN 978-3-319-21634-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21635-5
ISSN 2192-9165 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-21635-5 (eBook)
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Preface
In her 1972 book, The Future of Marriage, Jesse Bernard argued that, within each relationship, there exist two marriages, namely his marriage and her marriage. In other words, Bernard explained, women and men have fundamentally different experiences in their shared relationship. Bernard’s review of the literature revealed that marriage had positive implications for men in domains ranging from employment and income to health and longevity, but that married women fared more poorly than both married men and single women. The institution of marriage would have a future, Bernard argued, but only if marriage relationships changed in ways that also supported women’s health and well-being. Over 40 years after Bernard’s volume, speakers at the 2014 Annual Penn State Symposium on Family Issues took stock of couple relationsh
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