Synthesizes and elaborates current thinking on gender perspective. Presents basic concepts, questions, and connections at each level of analysis. Uses care in marriage to illustrate perspective. Notes that, rather than ask whether women or men are more caring, gender perspective asks what conditions are necessary for women and men to care.…

Argues that the Women's Liberation movement was interconnected to contraceptive technology and a shift in the ratio of males to females at marriageable age. These changes influenced the proportion of married women, divorce rate, marital fertility rate, illegitimacy ratio, and male-female differences in education and labor-force participation.…

Reviews feminism and family research, noting that feminist explanations of how families operate and contribute to maintaining women's subordination have shifted in 1980s from those that emphasize sex roles and socialization to those that describe processes of categorization and stratification by gender. This latter approach, called gender theory,…

Twenty heterosexual married female and male feminists were interviewed and asked to describe the influence of feminism on their marriage. Couples reported practicing vigilance, which entails a critique of gender injustices, public acts of equality, support of wives' activities, reflective assessment, and emotional involvement. (JPS)

Examined whether women and men who have daughters will be more likely to support feminism than will those with sons. Data from Toronto (Ontario) and Detroit (Michigan) metropolitan areas revealed that, for women in both settings and for Canadian men, having daughters was associated with more egalitarian views. (Author/NB)

An egalitarian arrangement affects both the power and emotional quality of couples' relationships. How married couples (N=15) who divide household work and child care equitably and without regard to gender arrived at this arrangement and the consequences of it for their relationship are studied through interviews. Four paths are discussed.…

Compares engaged couples' expected gender-role differentiation of labor in marriage with their actual household task allocation one year after marriage. The acceptance of feminist ideology was the dominant predictor of household task allocation for both males and females. Parental household task allocation did not predict task allocation.…

Results of this investigation indicate that wives' concern for equal rights within the labor-force context is heightened by participation in marital unions characterized by status inconsistency across the dyad when these women hold nontraditional views on an indicator of family sex-role ideology and are under 30 years of age. (Author)

Examines the attitudes of college students towards the role of women in today's society and provides a profile of the hope of student prone to be most sexist. (HMV)

Used data from 697 married couples from nonmetropolitan Kentucky counties to study division of housework between spouses. Results confirm that influence of resources hinges on their relationship to sex-role attitudes. To alter traditional division of household labor, it may be necessary for women to hold more liberal sex-role attitudes. (Author/NB)

Utilizing questionnaires administered to a sample of 282 university students enrolled in Sociology classes in the fall of 1974, and 286 questionnaires returned by their parents, an evaluative comparison was made with the 1934 Kirkpatrick data concerning feminism and sex roles. A general trend toward more egalitarian attitudes exists. (Author)

Presents results of a review of feminism in family studies in three family counseling journals published between 1984 and 1994. Focuses on challenges, contradictions, tensions and themes that characterize current trends. Concludes that the discipline has created a legitimate places for feminism, but only in the domain of housework is it a central…

Argues for two distinct forms of couple violence. Review of large-sample surveys and data gathered from women's shelters suggests that some families suffer from occasional violence by either husbands or wives (common couple violence), while other families are terrorized by systematic male violence (patriarchal terrorism). Implications are…