Concept information
Preferred term
gender and relationships
Definition(s)
- Romantic relationships play an integral role in people's lives, serving as both a source of and a remedy for stress. For this reason, social scientists traditionally view love as a cognitive and social phenomenon, focusing on how we interpret our relationships with other people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Romance and Relationships]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- adultery
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children
- arranged marriages
- bachelors and spinsters
- bisexuality
- Boston marriages
- bridal industry
- child support
- chivalry
- civil unions
- cohabitation
- commitment ceremonies
- courtly love
- courtship
- deadbeat dads
- domestic labor
- dowry
- eldercare
- emotion work
- extended families
- Family Medical Leave Act of 1963
- family wage
- fatherhood movements
- feminization of migration
- feminization of poverty
- gender stereotypes
- global care chain work
- gynecology
- hegemonic masculinity
- Household Family and Medical Leave Act
- household livelihood strategies
- immigrant households and gender dynamics
- infertility
- intimate partner abuse
- mail-order brides
- Marriage Promotion Act
- Married Women's Property Acts
- maternalism
- maternity leave
- mate selection
- matrilineal systems
- midwifery
- military families
- monogamy
- motherhood
- online dating
- organization of family
- polyamory
- polygamy
- prison and parenting
- private/public spheres
- same-sex families
- sati
- sexually transmitted infections
- single-parent families
- sperm donors
- surrogacy
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- Uniform Marital Property Act
- veiling
- welfare reform
- wet nursing
- workfare
Belongs to group
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-V793V55J-D
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}