A bed of roses or a bed of thorns? Negotiating the couple relationship through sleep

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Hislop, Jenny ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Couples; Gender; Interaction; Negotiation; Sleep

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749006152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.1621     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. CROSSLEY, N. (2004) Sleep, reflexive embodiment and social networks, Paper presented at the first ESRC 'Sleep and Society' seminar, 3 December, University of Warwick,
2. ELIAS, N. (1978) The Civilizing Process, Oxford: Blackwell
3. GOFFMAN, E. (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, London: Penguin
4. GOFFMAN, E. (1983) The Interaction Order. American Sociological Association, 1982 Presidential Address, American Sociological Review, 48 1-17
5. GROEGER, J., Zijlstra, F. and Dijk, D.-J. (2004) Sleep quantity, sleep difficulties and their perceived consequences in a representative sample of some two thousand British adults, Journal of Sleep Research, 13 359-371
6. GROVE, V. (2001) Sleep well my love, The Times, Weekend, 11 August 2001.
7. HISLOP, J. (2004) The Social Context of Women's Sleep: Perceptions and Experiences of Women Aged 40 and Over, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Surrey.
8. HISLOP, J. and Arber, S. (2003a) Sleepers Wake! The gendered nature of sleep disruption among mid-life women, Sociology, 37 (4), 695-711
9. HISLOP, J. and Arber, S. (2003b) Understanding women's sleep management: beyond medicalization-healthicization?, Sociology of Health and Illness, 25 (7), 815-837
10. HISLOP, J. and Arber, S. (2003c) Sleep as a social act: a window on gender roles and relationships, in J. Ginn (Eds.) Gender & Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships, Maidenhead: McGraw Hill/Open University Press, pp. 186-205.
11. HISLOP, J. and Arber, S. (2006) Sleep, gender and aging: temporal perspectives in the mid-to-later life transition. In K. Slevin (Eds.) Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking, New York/London: Routledge, pp. 225-246.
12. JAMES, N. (1989) Emotional labour: skill and work in the social regulation of feelings, Sociological Review, 37 15-42
13. LOWE, Pamela, Boden, Sharon, Williams, Simon, Seale, Clive and Deborah Steinberg (2007) Who Are You Sleeping With? the Construction of Heteronormativity in Stories About Sleep in British Newspapers, Sociological Research Online Vol 12 Issue 5, 〈http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/5. html〉
14. MASON, J. (1996) Gender, care and sensibility in family and kin relationships'. In L. Adkins (Eds.) Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Bogy, Houndmills: MacMillan, pp. 15-36.
15. MEADOWS, R. (2005) The 'negotiated night': an embodied conceptual framework for the sociological study of sleep, The Sociological Review, 53 (2), 240-254
16. MEADOWS, R., Venn, S., Hislop, J., Stanley, N. and Arber, S. (2005) Investigating couples' sleep: an evaluation of actigraphic analysis techniques, Journal of Sleep Research, 14 (4), 377-386
17. PANKHURST, F. and Home, J. (1994) The influence of bed partners on movement during sleep, Sleep, 17 (4), 308-15
18. ROSENBLATT, R. (2006) And so to bed ...... Times Online, 16 October 2006. 〈http://timesonline.co.uk/article/0,7-2403495.html〉
19. SLEEP COUNCIL (2002) Separate beds - The secret of wedded bliss?, 〈http://www.sleepcouncil.com/〉.
20. TAYLOR, B. (1993) Unconsciousness and society: The sociology of sleep, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 6 (3), 463-471
21. VENN, S., (2007) 'Its Okay for a Man to Snore': the Influence of Gender on Sleep Disruption in Couples, Sociological Research Online. Vol 12 Issue 5 〈http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/1.html〉
22. VENN, S., Arber, S., Meadows, R. and Hislop, J. (forthcoming) The Fourth Shift: Exploring the gendered nature of sleep disruption in couples with children, submitted to British Journal of Sociology.
23. WILLIAMS, S. (2005) Sleep and Society. Sociological Ventures into the (Un)known, London: Routledge