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Sinikka Elliott
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 48
Citations - 1669
Sinikka Elliott is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human sexuality & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 44 publications receiving 1350 citations. Previous affiliations of Sinikka Elliott include North Carolina State University & University of Texas at Austin.
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Being a Good Mom: Low-Income, Black Single Mothers Negotiate Intensive Mothering
TL;DR: The tenacity of the intensive mothering ideology, the notion that good mothers should invest vast amounts of time, money, energy, and emotional labor in mothering is well documented, particularly among affluent White mothers as mentioned in this paper.
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The performance of desire: Gender and sexual negotiation in long-term marriages.
Sinikka Elliott,Debra Umberson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that men and women tend to believe that sex is integral to a good marriage and that men are more sexual than women, and that husbands and wives commonly experience conflict around sex and undertake emotion work to manage their own and their spouse's feelings about sex.
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Casual Hookups to Formal Dates: Refining the Boundaries of the Sexual Double Standard
TL;DR: The authors analyzed how students interpreted a vignette describing a heterosexual hookup followed by a sexless first date and found that women want relationships more than sex and men care about sex more than relationships.
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The Joy of Cooking
TL;DR: The authors argue that time pressures, tradeoffs to save money, and the burden of pleasing others make it difficult for mothers to enact the idealized vision of home-cooked meals advocated by foodies and public health officials.
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“We Want Them to Be as Heterosexual as Possible” Fathers Talk about Their Teen Children’s Sexuality
TL;DR: This paper examined heterosexual fathers' descriptions of conversations with their teen children about sexuality and their perceptions of their teen adolescents' sexual identities and found that fathers construct their own identities as masculine and heterosexual in the context of these conversations and prefer that their children, especially sons, are heterosexual.