Book chapter
What Goes Up May Come Down: Sex and Gendered Patterns in Relational Dissolution
Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, pp.185-204
Psychology Press
2006
Abstract
Both women and men form intimate relationships, and both sexes end some of those relationships. That much the sexes share. What they may not share is how they experience relationships,
the reasons they are satisfied or dissatisfied with those relationships, and the ways they engage
in ending relationships. In this chapter, we explore what is known about women’s and men’s
and masculine and feminine understandings of close relationships, both when they are working
well and when they are not. In the pages that follow, we discuss research that gives us insights
into the somewhat different ways that the sexes and genders, in general, define and respond to
relationship distress.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- What Goes Up May Come Down: Sex and Gendered Patterns in Relational Dissolution
- Creators
- Steve Duck - University of Iowa, RhetoricJulia T. Wood
- Contributors
- Mark A. Fine (Editor)John H. Harvey (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, pp.185-204
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2006
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984397944402771
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