Housework and Sex in Midlife Marriages: An Examination of Three Perspectives on the Association.
Studies of the link between housework and sex sometimes reach divergent conclusions-- partly resulting from varying perspectives on this relationship. We identify three perspectives found in prior studies of housework and sex--temporal, distributional, and fairness--each reflecting a different view...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 1325 - 1351 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2018
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