Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 270120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis Kernoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Mansfield |
| SIGNATURE | MANSFIELD P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Negotiating Sexual Agency: Postmenopausal Women's Meaning and Experience of Sexual Desire
The purpose of this feminist grounded theory study was to understand the meaning and experience of postmenopausal women's sexual desire. Data collection from 22 postmenopausal women who were ongoing participants of the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health occurred via audiotaped, telephone-based, semistructured interviews. Women's descriptions of their sexual needs and desires led to the discovery of the core category, negotiating sexual age…
Our Menses, Ourselves: Research and Commentary from The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Women's sexual desire: A feminist critique
This paper offers a critical feminist analysis of the biomedical conceptualization of women's sexual desire. The five major features of the biomedical model of female sexual desire examined and critiqued are: 1) use of the male model as the standard, 2) use of a linear model of sexual response, 3) biological reductionism, 4) depoliticalization, and 5) medicalization of variation. A "New View", an alternative to the biomedical model, is offered fo…
Feeling frumpy”: The relationships between body image and sexual response changes in midlife women
This study investigated the relationships between self-rated attractiveness and self-reported sexual response changes (over the past decade) and current sexual satisfaction in 307 heterosexual, midlife women. Results indicated that regardless of the woman's specific age, she was more likely to consider herself more attractive when she was 10 years younger and her self-perceived attractiveness did not significantly differ based on her menopausal s…
Validating a pencil-and-paper measure of perimenopausal menstrual blood loss
Staging the menopausal transition: Data from the TREMIN Research Program on Women’s Health
Association between psychological stress and menstrual cycle characteristics in perimenopausal women
The Menstrual Cycle: Feminist Analyses from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Facing the Unknown: Social Support During the Menopausal Transition
Many midlife women are uncertain about the indicators of menopause and how to negotiate the menopausal transition. They need accurate information regarding perimenopause and menopause. They need to learn to cope with their changing bodies, appearance, and sexuality, as well as issues related to aging in a youth-oriented society. To do this, they need to learn how to access and mobilize the informational, emotional, and instrumental support that t…
Reconciling Messages: The Process of Sexual Talk for Latinas
Young Latinas'experiences and meanings of sexuality were explored through 31 interviews, with grounded theory used to provide theoretical understanding of sexual talk. The women's level of comfort with sexual talk and their explicitness influenced the kind of sexual talk they engaged in with partners. The analysis of being in a romantic relationship revealed similar descriptions of processes within the accounts that led to the discovery of the co…
Midlife Women's Attributions for Their Sexual Response Changes
This study focused on the sexual response changes of 280 mostly White, married, highly educated midlife women and on the attributions they made for these changes. In a U.S. sample of women participating in the Midlife Women's Health Survey (MWHS), women whose sexual response had changed in the past year (40%) reported more decrements than increases in sexual response. When asked how they accounted for these changes, women referred most often to t…
Qualities Midlife Women Desire in Their Sexual Relationships and Their Changing Sexual Response
The present study focused on the association between the particular sexual qualities midlife women desired in themselves and their husbands and the changes in sexual response they were experiencing. In a U.S. sample of 280 women participating in the ongoing Midlife Women's Health Survey, 40% reported a change in their sexual response, more often as decrements than increases, although desiring more nongenital touching was frequently noted. Respond…
Keeping up Appearances: The Basic Social Process of the Menopausal Transition
Sixty-one perimenopausal women experiencing changes in menstrual bleeding were interviewed by phone and were asked about the changes they were experiencing, how they felt about the changes, and how the changes affected their lives. Women's responses indicated that they perceived certain changes (unpredictable or unexpectedly heavy bleeding, intense hot flashes, and sudden emotional outbursts) as potentially embarrassing or disruptive. Women's att…
From Edith Bunker to the 6: 00 News
The purpose of this research was to study how contemporary, healthy midlife women perceive menopause and what their sources of information on menopause are. A nonclinical convenience sample of 505 middle-class women aged 35-55 (mean age = 46.6) from across the U.S. responded to the Midlife Women's Health Survey. Overall, the findings convey a somewhat disturbing picture of menopause. Notable was the absence of any sense of achievement or elevated…
The job climate for women in traditionally male blue-collar occupations
Gender and Changes in Support of Parents in China: Implications for the One-Child Policy
The Chinese traditionally have valued sons over daughters, depending on their sons to support them in old age. Recent changes, however, suggest a shift toward greater gender equality, with daughters also keeping elderly parents. The present study, undertaken in 1979 in the People's Republic of China, assessed attitudes of 48 university staff members toward financial support for aged parents and living arrangements in old age, with an emphasis on …
Women and their husbands: Mood and arousal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle and days of the week
This study examined the relationship between biological (menstrual cycle) and social-contextual (day of the week) factors and psychological and physical events among nine women and their spouses. Employing P-technique factor analysis to identify consistent patterns in single-subject data over 90 days of reporting, two factors emerged: Negative Mood and Arousal. When these factors were compared over five phases of each woman's menstrual cycle, the…
Rural-urban differences in women's psychological well-being
The psychological well‐being of rural women has been a neglected research topic. This paper begins to fill that gap by reporting a study of the emotional well‐being of 75 women in a highly rural Pennsylvania county and a comparable urban group (N = 78) from Philadelphia. Results indicated few differences between the groups in any of the indicators of well‐being (stress, tension, strain, exhaustion, and life satisfaction); both groups reported rel…
Midlife Childbearing: Strategies for Informed Decisionmaking
More and more women in the United States are choosing to delay motherhood until their 30s or even 40s. Yet traditional medical advice warns against midlife pregnancy, predicting a variety of adverse reproductive outcomes associated with “advanced maternal age.” Assignment to a high-risk category may result in heightened feelings of concern about pregnancy complications among midlife mothers. Because it is possible that increased emotionality duri…
Sex differences in attraction to infants: When do they occur
Feeling frumpy”: The relationships between body image and sexual response changes in midlife women
This study investigated the relationships between self-rated attractiveness and self-reported sexual response changes (over the past decade) and current sexual satisfaction in 307 heterosexual, midlife women. Results indicated that regardless of the woman's specific age, she was more likely to consider herself more attractive when she was 10 years younger and her self-perceived attractiveness did not significantly differ based on her menopausal s…
The job climate for women in traditionally male blue-collar occupations
Gender and Changes in Support of Parents in China: Implications for the One-Child Policy
The Chinese traditionally have valued sons over daughters, depending on their sons to support them in old age. Recent changes, however, suggest a shift toward greater gender equality, with daughters also keeping elderly parents. The present study, undertaken in 1979 in the People's Republic of China, assessed attitudes of 48 university staff members toward financial support for aged parents and living arrangements in old age, with an emphasis on …
Women's sexual desire: A feminist critique
This paper offers a critical feminist analysis of the biomedical conceptualization of women's sexual desire. The five major features of the biomedical model of female sexual desire examined and critiqued are: 1) use of the male model as the standard, 2) use of a linear model of sexual response, 3) biological reductionism, 4) depoliticalization, and 5) medicalization of variation. A "New View", an alternative to the biomedical model, is offered fo…
Reconciling Messages: The Process of Sexual Talk for Latinas
Young Latinas'experiences and meanings of sexuality were explored through 31 interviews, with grounded theory used to provide theoretical understanding of sexual talk. The women's level of comfort with sexual talk and their explicitness influenced the kind of sexual talk they engaged in with partners. The analysis of being in a romantic relationship revealed similar descriptions of processes within the accounts that led to the discovery of the co…
Qualities Midlife Women Desire in Their Sexual Relationships and Their Changing Sexual Response
The present study focused on the association between the particular sexual qualities midlife women desired in themselves and their husbands and the changes in sexual response they were experiencing. In a U.S. sample of 280 women participating in the ongoing Midlife Women's Health Survey, 40% reported a change in their sexual response, more often as decrements than increases, although desiring more nongenital touching was frequently noted. Respond…
Keeping up Appearances: The Basic Social Process of the Menopausal Transition
Sixty-one perimenopausal women experiencing changes in menstrual bleeding were interviewed by phone and were asked about the changes they were experiencing, how they felt about the changes, and how the changes affected their lives. Women's responses indicated that they perceived certain changes (unpredictable or unexpectedly heavy bleeding, intense hot flashes, and sudden emotional outbursts) as potentially embarrassing or disruptive. Women's att…
Sex differences in attraction to infants: When do they occur
Negotiating Sexual Agency: Postmenopausal Women's Meaning and Experience of Sexual Desire
The purpose of this feminist grounded theory study was to understand the meaning and experience of postmenopausal women's sexual desire. Data collection from 22 postmenopausal women who were ongoing participants of the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health occurred via audiotaped, telephone-based, semistructured interviews. Women's descriptions of their sexual needs and desires led to the discovery of the core category, negotiating sexual age…
From Edith Bunker to the 6: 00 News
The purpose of this research was to study how contemporary, healthy midlife women perceive menopause and what their sources of information on menopause are. A nonclinical convenience sample of 505 middle-class women aged 35-55 (mean age = 46.6) from across the U.S. responded to the Midlife Women's Health Survey. Overall, the findings convey a somewhat disturbing picture of menopause. Notable was the absence of any sense of achievement or elevated…
Midlife Childbearing: Strategies for Informed Decisionmaking
More and more women in the United States are choosing to delay motherhood until their 30s or even 40s. Yet traditional medical advice warns against midlife pregnancy, predicting a variety of adverse reproductive outcomes associated with “advanced maternal age.” Assignment to a high-risk category may result in heightened feelings of concern about pregnancy complications among midlife mothers. Because it is possible that increased emotionality duri…
Sex differences in attraction to infants: When do they occur
Rural-urban differences in women's psychological well-being
The psychological well‐being of rural women has been a neglected research topic. This paper begins to fill that gap by reporting a study of the emotional well‐being of 75 women in a highly rural Pennsylvania county and a comparable urban group (N = 78) from Philadelphia. Results indicated few differences between the groups in any of the indicators of well‐being (stress, tension, strain, exhaustion, and life satisfaction); both groups reported rel…
Midlife Childbearing: Strategies for Informed Decisionmaking
More and more women in the United States are choosing to delay motherhood until their 30s or even 40s. Yet traditional medical advice warns against midlife pregnancy, predicting a variety of adverse reproductive outcomes associated with “advanced maternal age.” Assignment to a high-risk category may result in heightened feelings of concern about pregnancy complications among midlife mothers. Because it is possible that increased emotionality duri…
Women and their husbands: Mood and arousal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle and days of the week
This study examined the relationship between biological (menstrual cycle) and social-contextual (day of the week) factors and psychological and physical events among nine women and their spouses. Employing P-technique factor analysis to identify consistent patterns in single-subject data over 90 days of reporting, two factors emerged: Negative Mood and Arousal. When these factors were compared over five phases of each woman's menstrual cycle, the…
Gender and Changes in Support of Parents in China: Implications for the One-Child Policy
The Chinese traditionally have valued sons over daughters, depending on their sons to support them in old age. Recent changes, however, suggest a shift toward greater gender equality, with daughters also keeping elderly parents. The present study, undertaken in 1979 in the People's Republic of China, assessed attitudes of 48 university staff members toward financial support for aged parents and living arrangements in old age, with an emphasis on …
The job climate for women in traditionally male blue-collar occupations
From Edith Bunker to the 6: 00 News
The purpose of this research was to study how contemporary, healthy midlife women perceive menopause and what their sources of information on menopause are. A nonclinical convenience sample of 505 middle-class women aged 35-55 (mean age = 46.6) from across the U.S. responded to the Midlife Women's Health Survey. Overall, the findings convey a somewhat disturbing picture of menopause. Notable was the absence of any sense of achievement or elevated…
Qualities Midlife Women Desire in Their Sexual Relationships and Their Changing Sexual Response
The present study focused on the association between the particular sexual qualities midlife women desired in themselves and their husbands and the changes in sexual response they were experiencing. In a U.S. sample of 280 women participating in the ongoing Midlife Women's Health Survey, 40% reported a change in their sexual response, more often as decrements than increases, although desiring more nongenital touching was frequently noted. Respond…
Keeping up Appearances: The Basic Social Process of the Menopausal Transition
Sixty-one perimenopausal women experiencing changes in menstrual bleeding were interviewed by phone and were asked about the changes they were experiencing, how they felt about the changes, and how the changes affected their lives. Women's responses indicated that they perceived certain changes (unpredictable or unexpectedly heavy bleeding, intense hot flashes, and sudden emotional outbursts) as potentially embarrassing or disruptive. Women's att…
Midlife Women's Attributions for Their Sexual Response Changes
This study focused on the sexual response changes of 280 mostly White, married, highly educated midlife women and on the attributions they made for these changes. In a U.S. sample of women participating in the Midlife Women's Health Survey (MWHS), women whose sexual response had changed in the past year (40%) reported more decrements than increases in sexual response. When asked how they accounted for these changes, women referred most often to t…
Reconciling Messages: The Process of Sexual Talk for Latinas
Young Latinas'experiences and meanings of sexuality were explored through 31 interviews, with grounded theory used to provide theoretical understanding of sexual talk. The women's level of comfort with sexual talk and their explicitness influenced the kind of sexual talk they engaged in with partners. The analysis of being in a romantic relationship revealed similar descriptions of processes within the accounts that led to the discovery of the co…
Validating a pencil-and-paper measure of perimenopausal menstrual blood loss
Staging the menopausal transition: Data from the TREMIN Research Program on Women’s Health
Association between psychological stress and menstrual cycle characteristics in perimenopausal women
The Menstrual Cycle: Feminist Analyses from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Facing the Unknown: Social Support During the Menopausal Transition
Many midlife women are uncertain about the indicators of menopause and how to negotiate the menopausal transition. They need accurate information regarding perimenopause and menopause. They need to learn to cope with their changing bodies, appearance, and sexuality, as well as issues related to aging in a youth-oriented society. To do this, they need to learn how to access and mobilize the informational, emotional, and instrumental support that t…
Feeling frumpy”: The relationships between body image and sexual response changes in midlife women
This study investigated the relationships between self-rated attractiveness and self-reported sexual response changes (over the past decade) and current sexual satisfaction in 307 heterosexual, midlife women. Results indicated that regardless of the woman's specific age, she was more likely to consider herself more attractive when she was 10 years younger and her self-perceived attractiveness did not significantly differ based on her menopausal s…
Our Menses, Ourselves: Research and Commentary from The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
Women's sexual desire: A feminist critique
This paper offers a critical feminist analysis of the biomedical conceptualization of women's sexual desire. The five major features of the biomedical model of female sexual desire examined and critiqued are: 1) use of the male model as the standard, 2) use of a linear model of sexual response, 3) biological reductionism, 4) depoliticalization, and 5) medicalization of variation. A "New View", an alternative to the biomedical model, is offered fo…
Negotiating Sexual Agency: Postmenopausal Women's Meaning and Experience of Sexual Desire
The purpose of this feminist grounded theory study was to understand the meaning and experience of postmenopausal women's sexual desire. Data collection from 22 postmenopausal women who were ongoing participants of the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health occurred via audiotaped, telephone-based, semistructured interviews. Women's descriptions of their sexual needs and desires led to the discovery of the core category, negotiating sexual age…
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments (6 works)