‘‘Doing’’ and ‘‘Undoing’’ Gender: The Meaning and Division of Housework in Same-Sex Couples

This analytic review highlights what can be gained from research on same-sex couples and housework. This review reveals how same-sex couples both “do” and “undo” gender through housework. This review also underscores the need to attend to the social and temporal contexts that shape how same-sex couples give meaning to and enact housework. And, this review challenges us to think beyond simplistic classification systems of housework as feminine or masculine, or as gendered or nongendered, and, likewise, to move beyond characterizations of same-sex couples as either “doing” or “undoing” gender.