Same-Sex Couples May Have More Egalitarian Relationships http://www.wbur.org/npr/373835114/same-sex-couples-may-have-more-egalitarian-relationships National Public Radio (NPR) December 29, 2014
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
Is there more going on in the hookup scene than meets (men’s) eyes? The college hookup scene is typically understood as a male-dominated environment—where men are mainly in charge of sexual initiation, parties are often centered around fraternity houses, treating women as sex objects is common, and women engage in sexual displays, including kissing each other, in order to arouse male interest.
Yet, in the forthcoming April 2014 issue of Gender & Society, a team of researchers observes that for some women the super-straight environment of college hookups is also a setting “to explore and to later verify bisexual, lesbian, or queer sexual identities.” Turns out public kissing and threesomes play an important role—and that not all of that sex play is about performing for men’s pleasure.
Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Singles & Dating
CCF’s Dawn Braithwaite was on KFOR’s Lincoln Live radio show discussing children in families with same-sex parents. Listen to the interview on their website (after clicking, scroll down and select “Children in Gay Families”).
Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / LGBTQ Partnering & FamiliesBetty Friedan highlighted the many ways that cultural images and expectations of gender in the 1950s and 60s held women back. The expectations derived most obviously from patriarchy, which Friedan recognized, but also from white supremacy, capitalism, and heterosexism, which she did not. In Friedan’s time the feminine mystique certainly constrained women’s senses of themselves and their possibilities, but at least it recognized women as a group. The “lesbian mystique,” by contrast, denied lesbians even existed. The concept was literally inconceivable. In the 19th century, Queen Victoria is rumored to have flatly proclaimed: “Women don’t do that.”
Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
On the 50th Anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, Council on Contemporary Families Scholars identify what’s changed—and what hasn’t.
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Work & Family
At a time of dramatic change in attitudes towards gays and lesbians in America, a new study released this month in Gender & Society highlights the diversity of gay and lesbian experiences in America. “Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality,” by University of Nebraska sociologist Emily Kazyak, puts the lives of rural gays and […]
Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
By Brian Powell, Ph.D. James H. Rudy Professor of Sociology Indiana University Phone: 812-855-7624 (office); 812-360-0474 (cell) Email: powell@indiana.edu The gender revolution may have been stalled, but the sexual revolution continues to gather steam. Twenty years ago, the idea of same-sex marriage was inconceivable for most heterosexual and homosexual Americans. Sixteen years ago, the Defense […]
Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / LGBTQ Partnering & FamiliesThe New Jersey Supreme Court has given the state Legislature a historic opportunity, and I don’t mean the chance to allow same-sex couples to marry. The Legislature has the chance to enact civil unions for all couples – same-sex and different-sex. New Zealand does it. So does the Netherlands, under the name “registered partnership.” Maine and the District of Columbia recognize “domestic partnerships” for both straight and gay couples, although both give domestic partners fewer rights than those accorded married couples. Even New Jersey’s current domestic partnership law allows different-sex couples to register – but only if both partners are over 62, presumably a nod to the impact of remarriage on certain pension and retirement benefits.
Topics of Expertise: LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Marriage & Divorce
By Michael J. Rosenfeld Professor of Sociology Stanford University mrosenfe@stanford.edu, 415.205.1892 Prior to 1970, the overwhelming majority of all couples were same-race married couples. Couples who lived together outside of marriage, whether heterosexual or same-sex, were practically invisible. Inter-racial marriages were extremely rare. In fact, until 1967, many states in the US had laws against interracial […]
Topics of Expertise: Biracial/ Multicultural Children and Interracial/ Multicultural Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Marriage & Divorce / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Singles & Dating
By Gary Gates Senior Research Fellow The Williams Institute UCLA School of Law gates@law.ucla.edu; 310.825.1868 The New York Court of Appeals ruled this morning that the state Constitution does not guarantee a right to marriage for same-sex couples, and that state lawmakers, not the courts, are better suited to consider the issue,” reports The New York […]
Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
Williams Distinguished Scholar, Williams Institute& Director Professor of Economics Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Executive Director of the Rockway Institute for LGBT Psychology and Public Policy, and Distinguished Professor in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program, California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco
Associate Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina
Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Owner/Principal at Schoenberg Family Law Group, P.C.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School; Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center; American Family Therapy Academy; Boston Center for Culturally Affirming Practices
Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas
