Cohabitation: Race, Class, Gender and Nonmarital Unions
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Gender Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 August 2022) | Viewed by 4778
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The number of cohabiting couples has increased significantly over time- nearly tripling over the last two decades. As might be expected, as the number of couples cohabiting has grown, the Census Bureau reports that the composition of cohabiting households has changed. Cohabitors, on average, still tend to have less education and income than those who marry directly. But, cohabiting couples today are wealthier, more educated, older, and more racially and ethnically diverse than their counterparts were in the past. As cohabitation has become more socially acceptable, wider swaths of the population have chosen to live together unmarried. Still, overall trends obscure significant variability within and between couples, especially as it relates to race/ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender.
The aim of this special issue is to examine how the ways that the experience of cohabitation is similar or differs by race/ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods submissions as well as theoretical/conceptual pieces from a broad range of social science disciplines are invited. In addition, international research is particularly valuable given limited information on cohabitation outside of the United States and Western Europe. Submissions which focus on intersectionality and cohabitation are of special interest.
Dr. Amanda Miller
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cohabitation
- intersectionality
- family
- social class
- gender
- couples
- intimate relationships
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