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“Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners

Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Adam Talkington
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2022, 8 (5) 98-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.05
Sarah Halpern-Meekin
aAssociate professor in the School of Human Ecology and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
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bCompleting a PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
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vol. 8 no. 5 98-119
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.05

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2377-8253
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  • Published online July 26, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Halpern-Meekin, Sarah, and Adam Talkington. “Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(5): 98–119. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.05. The authors thank the Russell Sage Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Institute for Research on Poverty for their financial support of this research project. The authors would also like to thank Grace Landrum and Todd Flournoy for their work on this study, as well as all the men who shared their time and experiences with us for this project. Direct correspondence to: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, at sarah.halpernmeekin@wisc.edu, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, United States Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Sarah Halpern-Meekina and
  2. Adam Talkingtonb
  1. aAssociate professor in the School of Human Ecology and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
  2. bCompleting a PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Sarah Halpern-Meekin, (sarah.halpernmeekin{at}wisc.edu)
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