Couples, Gender, and Power Creating Change in Intimate Relationships

Name: Couples, Gender, and Power Creating Change in Intimate Relationships
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ISBN: 9780826115218

ISBN-10: 0826115217

ISBN-13: 9780826115218

Edition: 2009

Authors: Carmen Knudson-Martin, Anne Rankin Mahoney

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While numerous couples strive for equality in their relationships, many are unaware of the insidious ways in which gender and power still affect them-from their career choices to communication patterns, child-rearing, housework, and more.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



About the Editors


Contributors


Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction



How Gendered Power Undermines Relationships



Gender Equality in Intimate Relationships




The Social Context of Gendered Power




Capturing the Lived Experience of Couples: Our Research Process




Intimacy, Gender, and Power



The Myth of Equality




Beyond Gender: The Processes of Relationship Equality




Carrying Equal Weight: Relational Responsibility and Attunement Among Same-Sex Couples




An Unequal Burden: Gendered Power in Diabetes Care




Gendered Power and Parenting



Mothering: Innate Talent or Conscious Collaboration?




Fathering: Disengaged or Responsive?




Suffering in Silence: Idealized Motherhood and Postpartum Depression




Transforming Power in Cultural Contexts



We-Consciousness: Creating Equality in Collectivist Culture




Pulling Together: How African American Couples Manage Social Inequalities




Pushing the Gender Line: How Immigrant Couples Reconstruct Power




Keeping the Peace: Couple Relationships in Iran




Gender Discourse in Relationship Stories of Young American Couples




The Practice of Transcending Gendered Power



Relational Orientations: A Contextual Framework for Assessment and Practice




Addressing Gendered Power: A Guide for Practice




Gender and Power as a Fulcrum for Clinical Change



Index