Alexis J Walker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 79231 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexis J Walker |
| PRENOMES | Alexis J |
| SOBRENOME | Walker |
| ASSINATURA | WALKER A J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oregon State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 469 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Missing Pieces of a Positive Relationship Science
The Royal We
Family rituals provide a rich context in which to study the relation between ideology and action. Guided by the gender perspective, this article analyzes the experiences of 21 newly married heterosexual couples who described how they planned their weddings. The interplay among gender ideology, gender display, and gender assessment differed across three types of couples: traditional ( n = 6), transitional ( n = 10), and egalitarian ( n = 5). An ex…
Gender, Genocide, and Ethnicity
Women use legacies to help family members articulate family identity, learn family history, and provide succeeding generations with information about family culture. Using feminist standpoint theory and the life-course perspective, this qualitative study examined the intergenerational transmissions that 30 older Armenian American mothers received and transmitted to succeeding generations within the sociohistorical experience of genocide. Mothers …
Meanings of Sisterhood and Developmental Disability
Integrating thought from critical feminist and disability theorists via a strategic social constructionist perspective, the authors analyzed 10 in-depth qualitative interviews to begin to understand the dialogue between (a) how nondisabled sisters understand themselves and their siblings with developmental disabilities and (b) wider systems of power or discourse. The women in this exploratory study described themselves as good sisters by portrayi…
Families and Social Change
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Studying Families
A symposium on marriage and its future
Methods, Theory, and the Practice of Feminist Research
Gender Ideology and Investment in Housework
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we assessed change in the relation between gender ideology and investment in routine chores across the retirement transition. Retirement may change the relation between ideology and household labor because the direct influence of time pressures is minimized. Specifically, men who have egalitarian attitudes before retirement may act in accordance with these views when they are retired…
Families in Later Life
Refracted Knowledge
I reinforce a vision for family science in which we routinely step back from our research to consider the fit of the empirical world with the reality of everyday life. This vision suggests that we pursue the methodological advances of the past decade but remain mindful of the limitations of the scientific approach. Such mindfulness will help us attend to both similarity and variability in families and in family-life experience. A responsible soci…
Who Is Responsible for Responsible Fathering
Studying Postmodern Families
Through dialogue and reflexivity, feminist researchers aim to create knowledge that is emergent from people in relationship with one another. Reflexivity is a process whereby researchers place themselves and their practices under scrutiny, acknowledging the ethical dilemmas that permeate the research process and impinge on the creation of knowledge. Guided by these tenets, we analyzed the relations among our research practices, our participants, …
Couples Watching Television
sought to confirm that partners in close relationships (West & Zimmerman, 1987) and exercise power (Komter, 1989) even in their ordinary everyday behavior and specifically in their selection of television programming via a remote control device (RCD). Individuals in 36 couples (86% heterosexual, 14% gay or lesbian) were interviewed. Men in heterosexual couples use and control RCD more than women, and their partners find RCD use more frustrating t…
Informal Caregiving to Aging Family Members
Since the early 1980s, there has been an explosion of literature on caregiving to aging family members. This work appears in a variety of outlets, but mostly in gerontological journals, and somewhat peripherally in journals specifically focused on families. Within the family caregiving literature, there is great ambiguity around three significant questions: (a) What is caregiving? (b) What are the negative and positive outcomes of caregiving for …
Gender and Family Work in One-Parent Households
One-parent families, headed by an unmarried residential mother or father who lives with one or more children under the age of 18, are increasingly common (Bumpass & Sweet, 1989; U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1993). Much as been written about these families, but there has been little empirical attention to how they handle household work. Single parenting might be particularly difficult for fathers who are unaccustomed to the full burden of family lab…
The Place of Feminism in Family Studies
In this article, as the question: What is the place of feminism in family studies? Scholars often take stock of their discipline. They search for what is there and what is missing, what concepts, theories, questions, and methods are at the center and margins, and what directions for future scholarship hold the most promise. Taking stock is an essential practice for feminist scholars who want to work at the center, yet retain the right to be criti…
Perceived Frequency of role Conflict and Relationship Quality for Caregiving Daughters
A role-conflict approach was employed to explore the impact of perceived frequency of conflict between caregiving and other obligations on the quality of relationships between daughters and their care-receiving mothers. Frequency of conflict between caregiving and responsibilities as a wife, mother, and paid and unpaid worker was assessed. Daughters reported relatively infrequent conflict between caregiving and other obligations. A multiple regre…
Daughters' Help to Mothers
Gender in Families
The authors review the research on gender by focusing on 3 domains of family life - marriage work (both wage and family work) and parenthood. Regarding marriage they consider intimacy communication and conflict and wife-battering. Regarding wage work they consider women and men as providers and resistance to wives as co-providers. Regarding family work they consider the nature of family work and resistance to sharing housework and child care. Reg…
Two Generations of Mothers and Daughters
Using both partners as informants and three interdependence measures (contact, aid, and attachment) as criterion variables, we address the assumption that women's orientation to and dependence on other generations differ because of unique roles. In 135 pairs of student women and their mothers and 119 pairs of middle-aged women and their mothers, we ask how a woman's role position interacts with her partner's role position in regard to interdepend…
Reconceptualizing Family Stress
Hill's (1949) model is the organizing framework for an examination of critical issues outstanding in the area of families under stress. Components of the model are identified and discussed, with the conclusion that, although the model has been heuristic, new models are needed. It is suggested that understanding of the stress process depends on recognition that all levels of the social system are interdependent and that stress occurs in a unique a…
Mothers and Daughters
In this paper we examine the association of aid exchange with attachment in two sets of mother-daughter relationships-student women and their mothers (139 pairs) and these same middle-aged mothers and their mothers (110 pairs). In each case both partners are respondents. Each pair is categorized by the pattern of aid exchange-high reciprocity, low reciprocity, mother dependent, daughter dependent. Attachment reflects emotional dependence. Mothers…
Feminism and Family Studies
Three basic tenets of feminism (the belief that women are exploited, devalued, and oppressed; a commitment to changing the conditions of women; and the adoption of a perspective critical of intellectual traditions) are discussed. At times these principles are at odds with traditional science. Therefore, we address the question: 'Can one be both a scientist and a feminist?' and answer in the affirmative. A review of a sample of JMF articles over t…
Predicting Sex Role Attitudes
Variance in sex role attitudes among a national sample of 1,522 women is investigated using a scale of attitudes toward the appropriate role of women as the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis. Exchange theory would predict that the traditional orientation toward women, being most costly today, is likely to be less favored by women with the most available alternatives. The findings indeed show that those who supported a tradition…
Gender in Families
The authors review the research on gender by focusing on 3 domains of family life - marriage work (both wage and family work) and parenthood. Regarding marriage they consider intimacy communication and conflict and wife-battering. Regarding wage work they consider women and men as providers and resistance to wives as co-providers. Regarding family work they consider the nature of family work and resistance to sharing housework and child care. Reg…
The Dyad as the Unit of Analysis
Linda Thompson, Alexis J. Walker, The Dyad as the Unit of Analysis: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 4, Methodology: The Other Side of Caring (Nov., 1982), pp. 889-900
The Place of Feminism in Family Studies
In this article, as the question: What is the place of feminism in family studies? Scholars often take stock of their discipline. They search for what is there and what is missing, what concepts, theories, questions, and methods are at the center and margins, and what directions for future scholarship hold the most promise. Taking stock is an essential practice for feminist scholars who want to work at the center, yet retain the right to be criti…
Who Is Responsible for Responsible Fathering
Predicting Sex Role Attitudes
Variance in sex role attitudes among a national sample of 1,522 women is investigated using a scale of attitudes toward the appropriate role of women as the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis. Exchange theory would predict that the traditional orientation toward women, being most costly today, is likely to be less favored by women with the most available alternatives. The findings indeed show that those who supported a tradition…
Intimacy and Intergenerational Aid and Contact among Mothers and Daughters
We address the assumption that aid, contact, and intimacy are components of some underlying dyadic construct by examining two mother-daughter relationships-student women and their mothers (132 pairs) and middle-aged women and their mothers (107 pairs). Both partners are respondents in each case. We distinguish between proximal aid and distal aid, include all modes of contact, and measure intimacy as a multidimensional construct. Aid and contact c…
Refracted Knowledge
I reinforce a vision for family science in which we routinely step back from our research to consider the fit of the empirical world with the reality of everyday life. This vision suggests that we pursue the methodological advances of the past decade but remain mindful of the limitations of the scientific approach. Such mindfulness will help us attend to both similarity and variability in families and in family-life experience. A responsible soci…
Gender Ideology and Investment in Housework
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we assessed change in the relation between gender ideology and investment in routine chores across the retirement transition. Retirement may change the relation between ideology and household labor because the direct influence of time pressures is minimized. Specifically, men who have egalitarian attitudes before retirement may act in accordance with these views when they are retired…
Gender and Family Work in One-Parent Households
One-parent families, headed by an unmarried residential mother or father who lives with one or more children under the age of 18, are increasingly common (Bumpass & Sweet, 1989; U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1993). Much as been written about these families, but there has been little empirical attention to how they handle household work. Single parenting might be particularly difficult for fathers who are unaccustomed to the full burden of family lab…
Reconceptualizing Family Stress
Hill's (1949) model is the organizing framework for an examination of critical issues outstanding in the area of families under stress. Components of the model are identified and discussed, with the conclusion that, although the model has been heuristic, new models are needed. It is suggested that understanding of the stress process depends on recognition that all levels of the social system are interdependent and that stress occurs in a unique a…
The Royal We
Family rituals provide a rich context in which to study the relation between ideology and action. Guided by the gender perspective, this article analyzes the experiences of 21 newly married heterosexual couples who described how they planned their weddings. The interplay among gender ideology, gender display, and gender assessment differed across three types of couples: traditional ( n = 6), transitional ( n = 10), and egalitarian ( n = 5). An ex…
Couples Watching Television
sought to confirm that partners in close relationships (West & Zimmerman, 1987) and exercise power (Komter, 1989) even in their ordinary everyday behavior and specifically in their selection of television programming via a remote control device (RCD). Individuals in 36 couples (86% heterosexual, 14% gay or lesbian) were interviewed. Men in heterosexual couples use and control RCD more than women, and their partners find RCD use more frustrating t…
Mothers and Daughters
In this paper we examine the association of aid exchange with attachment in two sets of mother-daughter relationships-student women and their mothers (139 pairs) and these same middle-aged mothers and their mothers (110 pairs). In each case both partners are respondents. Each pair is categorized by the pattern of aid exchange-high reciprocity, low reciprocity, mother dependent, daughter dependent. Attachment reflects emotional dependence. Mothers…
Studying Postmodern Families
Through dialogue and reflexivity, feminist researchers aim to create knowledge that is emergent from people in relationship with one another. Reflexivity is a process whereby researchers place themselves and their practices under scrutiny, acknowledging the ethical dilemmas that permeate the research process and impinge on the creation of knowledge. Guided by these tenets, we analyzed the relations among our research practices, our participants, …
Daughters' Help to Mothers
Feminism and Family Studies
Three basic tenets of feminism (the belief that women are exploited, devalued, and oppressed; a commitment to changing the conditions of women; and the adoption of a perspective critical of intellectual traditions) are discussed. At times these principles are at odds with traditional science. Therefore, we address the question: 'Can one be both a scientist and a feminist?' and answer in the affirmative. A review of a sample of JMF articles over t…
Meanings of Sisterhood and Developmental Disability
Integrating thought from critical feminist and disability theorists via a strategic social constructionist perspective, the authors analyzed 10 in-depth qualitative interviews to begin to understand the dialogue between (a) how nondisabled sisters understand themselves and their siblings with developmental disabilities and (b) wider systems of power or discourse. The women in this exploratory study described themselves as good sisters by portrayi…
Methods, Theory, and the Practice of Feminist Research
Two Generations of Mothers and Daughters
Using both partners as informants and three interdependence measures (contact, aid, and attachment) as criterion variables, we address the assumption that women's orientation to and dependence on other generations differ because of unique roles. In 135 pairs of student women and their mothers and 119 pairs of middle-aged women and their mothers, we ask how a woman's role position interacts with her partner's role position in regard to interdepend…
A symposium on marriage and its future
Perceived Frequency of role Conflict and Relationship Quality for Caregiving Daughters
A role-conflict approach was employed to explore the impact of perceived frequency of conflict between caregiving and other obligations on the quality of relationships between daughters and their care-receiving mothers. Frequency of conflict between caregiving and responsibilities as a wife, mother, and paid and unpaid worker was assessed. Daughters reported relatively infrequent conflict between caregiving and other obligations. A multiple regre…
Gender, Genocide, and Ethnicity
Women use legacies to help family members articulate family identity, learn family history, and provide succeeding generations with information about family culture. Using feminist standpoint theory and the life-course perspective, this qualitative study examined the intergenerational transmissions that 30 older Armenian American mothers received and transmitted to succeeding generations within the sociohistorical experience of genocide. Mothers …
Families and Social Change
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Studying Families
Personal Relationships
The Dyad as the Unit of Analysis
Linda Thompson, Alexis J. Walker, The Dyad as the Unit of Analysis: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 4, Methodology: The Other Side of Caring (Nov., 1982), pp. 889-900
Predicting Sex Role Attitudes
Variance in sex role attitudes among a national sample of 1,522 women is investigated using a scale of attitudes toward the appropriate role of women as the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis. Exchange theory would predict that the traditional orientation toward women, being most costly today, is likely to be less favored by women with the most available alternatives. The findings indeed show that those who supported a tradition…
Intimacy and Intergenerational Aid and Contact among Mothers and Daughters
We address the assumption that aid, contact, and intimacy are components of some underlying dyadic construct by examining two mother-daughter relationships-student women and their mothers (132 pairs) and middle-aged women and their mothers (107 pairs). Both partners are respondents in each case. We distinguish between proximal aid and distal aid, include all modes of contact, and measure intimacy as a multidimensional construct. Aid and contact c…
Mothers and Daughters
In this paper we examine the association of aid exchange with attachment in two sets of mother-daughter relationships-student women and their mothers (139 pairs) and these same middle-aged mothers and their mothers (110 pairs). In each case both partners are respondents. Each pair is categorized by the pattern of aid exchange-high reciprocity, low reciprocity, mother dependent, daughter dependent. Attachment reflects emotional dependence. Mothers…
Feminism and Family Studies
Three basic tenets of feminism (the belief that women are exploited, devalued, and oppressed; a commitment to changing the conditions of women; and the adoption of a perspective critical of intellectual traditions) are discussed. At times these principles are at odds with traditional science. Therefore, we address the question: 'Can one be both a scientist and a feminist?' and answer in the affirmative. A review of a sample of JMF articles over t…
Reconceptualizing Family Stress
Hill's (1949) model is the organizing framework for an examination of critical issues outstanding in the area of families under stress. Components of the model are identified and discussed, with the conclusion that, although the model has been heuristic, new models are needed. It is suggested that understanding of the stress process depends on recognition that all levels of the social system are interdependent and that stress occurs in a unique a…
Two Generations of Mothers and Daughters
Using both partners as informants and three interdependence measures (contact, aid, and attachment) as criterion variables, we address the assumption that women's orientation to and dependence on other generations differ because of unique roles. In 135 pairs of student women and their mothers and 119 pairs of middle-aged women and their mothers, we ask how a woman's role position interacts with her partner's role position in regard to interdepend…
Gender in Families
The authors review the research on gender by focusing on 3 domains of family life - marriage work (both wage and family work) and parenthood. Regarding marriage they consider intimacy communication and conflict and wife-battering. Regarding wage work they consider women and men as providers and resistance to wives as co-providers. Regarding family work they consider the nature of family work and resistance to sharing housework and child care. Reg…
Daughters' Help to Mothers
Perceived Frequency of role Conflict and Relationship Quality for Caregiving Daughters
A role-conflict approach was employed to explore the impact of perceived frequency of conflict between caregiving and other obligations on the quality of relationships between daughters and their care-receiving mothers. Frequency of conflict between caregiving and responsibilities as a wife, mother, and paid and unpaid worker was assessed. Daughters reported relatively infrequent conflict between caregiving and other obligations. A multiple regre…
Informal Caregiving to Aging Family Members
Since the early 1980s, there has been an explosion of literature on caregiving to aging family members. This work appears in a variety of outlets, but mostly in gerontological journals, and somewhat peripherally in journals specifically focused on families. Within the family caregiving literature, there is great ambiguity around three significant questions: (a) What is caregiving? (b) What are the negative and positive outcomes of caregiving for …
Gender and Family Work in One-Parent Households
One-parent families, headed by an unmarried residential mother or father who lives with one or more children under the age of 18, are increasingly common (Bumpass & Sweet, 1989; U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1993). Much as been written about these families, but there has been little empirical attention to how they handle household work. Single parenting might be particularly difficult for fathers who are unaccustomed to the full burden of family lab…
The Place of Feminism in Family Studies
In this article, as the question: What is the place of feminism in family studies? Scholars often take stock of their discipline. They search for what is there and what is missing, what concepts, theories, questions, and methods are at the center and margins, and what directions for future scholarship hold the most promise. Taking stock is an essential practice for feminist scholars who want to work at the center, yet retain the right to be criti…
Couples Watching Television
sought to confirm that partners in close relationships (West & Zimmerman, 1987) and exercise power (Komter, 1989) even in their ordinary everyday behavior and specifically in their selection of television programming via a remote control device (RCD). Individuals in 36 couples (86% heterosexual, 14% gay or lesbian) were interviewed. Men in heterosexual couples use and control RCD more than women, and their partners find RCD use more frustrating t…
Refracted Knowledge
I reinforce a vision for family science in which we routinely step back from our research to consider the fit of the empirical world with the reality of everyday life. This vision suggests that we pursue the methodological advances of the past decade but remain mindful of the limitations of the scientific approach. Such mindfulness will help us attend to both similarity and variability in families and in family-life experience. A responsible soci…
Who Is Responsible for Responsible Fathering
Studying Postmodern Families
Through dialogue and reflexivity, feminist researchers aim to create knowledge that is emergent from people in relationship with one another. Reflexivity is a process whereby researchers place themselves and their practices under scrutiny, acknowledging the ethical dilemmas that permeate the research process and impinge on the creation of knowledge. Guided by these tenets, we analyzed the relations among our research practices, our participants, …
Families in Later Life
A symposium on marriage and its future
Methods, Theory, and the Practice of Feminist Research
Gender Ideology and Investment in Housework
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we assessed change in the relation between gender ideology and investment in routine chores across the retirement transition. Retirement may change the relation between ideology and household labor because the direct influence of time pressures is minimized. Specifically, men who have egalitarian attitudes before retirement may act in accordance with these views when they are retired…
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Studying Families
Families and Social Change
Gender, Genocide, and Ethnicity
Women use legacies to help family members articulate family identity, learn family history, and provide succeeding generations with information about family culture. Using feminist standpoint theory and the life-course perspective, this qualitative study examined the intergenerational transmissions that 30 older Armenian American mothers received and transmitted to succeeding generations within the sociohistorical experience of genocide. Mothers …
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