Women Partners of Transgender Men Doing Housework and Emotion Work
April 3, 2010
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''Women's Work''? Women Partners of Transgender Men Doing Housework and Emotion Work
CARLA A. PFEFFER Purdue University North Central
Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2010
Despite increasing family studies research on same-sex cohabiters and families, the literature is virtually devoid of transgender and transsexual families. To bridge this gap, I present qualitative research narratives on household labor and emotion work from 50 women partners of transgender and transsexual men. Contrary to much literature on ''same-sex'' couples,the division of household labor and emotion work within these contemporary families cannot simply be described as egalitarian.