Outputs (7)

Women’s understandings of name change in mixed-sex civil partnership: Identity, family, and equality (2024)
Journal Article

Surname change for women in Britain remains the norm for those entering mixed-sex marriages. A range of sociological literature considers the implications of this for equality and social change (e.g. Thwaites, 2016; Pilcher, 2017; Carter and Duncan,... Read More about Women’s understandings of name change in mixed-sex civil partnership: Identity, family, and equality.

Thematic analysis (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the thematic analysis (TA) family of methods, highlights characteristics shared by the various branches of the TA family, as well as important philosophical, conceptual and procedural differences. We discuss various ways of di... Read More about Thematic analysis.

“Tell me a story and make me a picture”: Incorporating innovative visual methods in story completion design (2024)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we set out a novel use of story completion in our study of young people's understandings of sexuality and appearance. In our story completion design, we incorporated a visual element where participants were invited to produce a visual... Read More about “Tell me a story and make me a picture”: Incorporating innovative visual methods in story completion design.

“Friends? Supported. Partner? Not so much …”: Women's experiences of friendships, family, and relationships during perimenopause and menopause (2024)
Journal Article

In recent years, there has been increased cultural interest in perimenopause and menopause. The importance of peri/menopause in many women's lives makes this topic particularly pertinent for feminist psychologists. Some feminist scholars have acknowl... Read More about “Friends? Supported. Partner? Not so much …”: Women's experiences of friendships, family, and relationships during perimenopause and menopause.

Bisexualities (2024)
Book Chapter

This entry introduces the topic of bisexualities, which can be broadly defined as emotional, and/or romantic, and/or sexual attraction to people of more than one sex/gender. To consider bisexualities is important, in part because they have often been... Read More about Bisexualities.

“No one has ever asked me and I’m grateful that you have” men’s experiences of their partner’s female sexual pain (2023)
Journal Article

Female sexual pain (FSP) occurs within a relational context, yet little is known about partners’ experiences. We explored 26 men’s understandings and experiences of FSP within their different-sex relationships, using an online qualitative survey and... Read More about “No one has ever asked me and I’m grateful that you have” men’s experiences of their partner’s female sexual pain.

Introduction to Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue: On Solidarity (2023)
Journal Article