How has research on everyday hassles evolved? Describe how feminist methodologies have advanced the field.

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a. Feminist scholars who have used qualitative methods to study everyday, routinized experiences within families have also emphasized the multidimensional nature of daily hassles. Focusing on the routine, gendered experiences of everyday family life, feminist researchers have conducted in-depth, face-to-face interviews to uncover valuable insights regarding daily hassles. These studies provide rich sources of information about the nuances of daily family life that include participants’ own, often quite complex, appraisals of their experiences.
b. In addition to underscoring the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of family members’ experiences of daily hassles, a rich history of qualitative research has uncovered routinized aspects of daily family life previously overlooked by researchers. This body of work directs our attention beyond the activities typically identified in survey studies to include (a) emotion work (Dressel & Clark, 1990), (b) kin work (DiLeonardo, 1987), (c) marriage work (Oliker, 1989), (d) the scheduling of family time (Daly, 1996; Roy, Tubbs, & Burton, 2004), (e) the feeding of the family (DeVault, 1991), (f) the enactment of family rituals (Oswald, 2000), (g) household labor (Coltrane, 2000), (h) child care and care for aging or sick family members (Abel & Nelson, 1990), and (i) volunteer or service work (Hunter, Pearson, Ialongo, & Kellam, 1998).
c. At the start of the twenty-first century, researchers began to examine whether and how fluctuations in daily hassles affected daily interactions in families.
d. Influenced by family systems and stress transmission literatures as well as ecological and psychobiological perspectives, contemporary scholars have conducted daily experience studies focusing on how one family member’s daily stress is linked to another family member’s affect or behavior, as well as the reactivity of men versus women to daily stressors, and—most recently—family members’ physiological arousal.