No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life Among Lesbians and Gay Men

By C. Carrington. 2000

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science

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MEN, MEAT, AND MARRIAGE: MODELS OF MASCULINITY (2005, background): “Carrington (1999) observed masculine and feminine patterns of food negotiations occurring in lesbian and gay male couples.”
Differences between Gay and Lesbian Cohabiting Couples (2003, background): “…providing a rich description of the lives of some gay men and lesbians – make it difficult to determine the size and generality of any effects (e.g., Carrington, 1999; Clunis & Green, 1988; Mackey, O’Brien, & Mackey, 1997; McWhirter & Mattison, 1984; Oswald, 2000), have compared gay and lesbian…”
Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms (2019, background): “Some scholars argue that a woman may engage in high levels of housework to avoid being judged negatively by others, whereas a man may actively avoid too much or certain types of housework to evade being labeled as less masculine (Brines 1994; Carrington 2002; Tichenor 2005).”
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents (2012, background): “Alternatively, same-sex couples may report their arrangements as more equitable than they are because of internalized pressures to be egalitarian (Carrington, 1999); that is, they may be aware of dominant assumptions that they ‘‘should’’ be more equal than heterosexual couples and therefore report…”
“Doing Gender” (2007, background): “He offered the explanation that in lesbigay families both lesbians and gay men hide the unequal division of labor to protect the gender identity of the partner who has violated cultural expectations by doing more or less housework than is expected of his/her gender (Carrington, 1999).”
The Allocation of Household Labor by Partners in Gay and Lesbian Couples (2007, methodology): “, Lee & Waite, 2005) and evidence from gay and lesbian couples that reports of overall equality in the distribution of household labor do not match actual practice in specific tasks (Carrington, 1999), two strategies were employed to increase the reliability of the self-report measures used in this ”
Consequential Strangers and Peripheral Ties: The Importance of Unimportant Relationships (2009, background): “Families are social constructions whose members define the parameters of their ties (Carrington, 1999; Widmer, 2006).”
Attitudes Toward Gay Marriage in States Undergoing Marriage Law Transformation (2008, background): “5 Moving beyond family sociology and family psychology, we can draw from a fascinating literature on the uniqueness of gay men’s and lesbians’ family lives and intimate relationships (Carrington, 1999; Weston, 1991).”
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood (2007, background): “Social class is also likely a factor in these women’s egalitarianism: Carrington (1999) found that egalitarianism is often facilitated by lesbian and gay couples’ ability to purchase domesticity (e.g., cleaning person, dinners out).”
Hetero-cis–normativity and the gendering of transphobia (2016, methodology): “may be more likely to experience less restrictive gender roles and may also be more flexible in their attitudes about gender and sexuality (Carrington, 1999; Savin-Williams, 2005).”