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Economics Equity Family Feminism Midwives Mothering Psychoanalysis Sociology Transition to Parenthood

--- Care ---

A Feminist Public Ethic of Care meets the New Communitarian Family Policy

Clare Burton Memorial Lecture: 'Grateful Slaves' or 'Self-made Women'

Contract and Care

Does father care mean fathers share?

More than just play dough' - a preliminary assessment of the contribution of child care

The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National Boundaries

The impact of caring on informal carers'employment, income and earnings

The Invisible Carers Framing Domestic Work(ers)

The parent-infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self

The place of care the relevance of the feminist ethic of care

The social division of care

Welfare State regimes and the social organization of labour

--- Economics ---

Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics

Gender, welfare, regimes and agency

Lone motherhood and socio-economic disadvantage

Market returns? Gender and theories of change in employment relations

Neoliberalism gender inequality and the Australian labour market

Re-thinking the 'Feminization of Poverty'

Taking control of one's own life? Norwegian lone mothers experiencing

The adult worker model family, gender equality and care

Welfare, work, and changes in mothers' living arrangements in low-income families

'What would I be doing at home all day?'

Who gets the best deal from marriage: women or men?

Why women invented and must reinvent, the idea of a welfare state

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Locating difference class, 'race' and gender

Revisiting the Equality/Difference Debate Redefining Citizenship for the New Millennium,

The Changing Gender Contract as the Engine of Work-and-Family Policies

-- Family --

Breadwinning accounts of work and family life in the 1950s

Brothels as Families Reflections on the history of Bombay's Kothas

Comparative evidence of inequalityin cultural preferences - gender, class

Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality

Experiences of FamilyCaregiving among Middle-Aged Australian women

Family Intervention

Family model and mystical body witnessing gender through political metaphore

"His" and "Her" Marriage expectations determinants and consequences

Housing and Family Well-being

How Parenthood Experiences Influence Desire for more Children

Matrimony, American-style Losing sight of shifts in kinship

Parents, Power and Public Participation Sure Start, an Experiment in New Labour

'Pressed for time' the differential impacts of a 'time squeeze'

The cooptation of gender concepts in EU policies the case of "Reconciliation of work and family"

The European Union and Gender Equality

The shaping of strengths and challenges of Australian families implications for policy and practice

Time Strains and Psychological Well-Being Do Dual-Earner Mothers and Fathers Differ?

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--- Feminism ---

Expertise and forms of knowledgein the government of families

Choosing Childlessness Weber's Typology of Action

Telling our Stories feminist debates and use of oral history

Neutral Claims-Gendered Meanings Parenthood and Developmental Psychology

Feminism, Psychology and Identity Transformations in the Nordic Countries

'Just like your mother?' The politics of feminism and maternity

Germaine Greer versus the New Feminism Gender Politics in the United Kingdom

Is there really a second shiftand if so, who does it?

Joining the Club? Academia and Working-class Femininities

My mother my self, Cleo Magazine and Feminism in 1970s Australia,
Bras, Breasts and Living in the seventies

The rise of 'women's poetry in the 1970s

Masking dependency the political role of family rhetoric

Review article Bodies in translation

Negotiating Spaces Through Third-Wave Feminism
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-- Midwives --

Becoming a Mother versus maternal attainment

Changes in womens' roles impact on and social policy implications

Domestic Violence and health care Opening Pandora's box

Multiple caretaking of infants and young children:an area in critical need of feminist

The importance of first-time parent groups for new parents

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-- Mothering --

A wake for mother the maternal deathbed in women's fiction

Breastfeeding policies and the production of motherhood

Comparative research on women's employment

Conflict in the transitions to becoming a mother

Doing the dirty work of social class? Mothers' work in support

Infant care in England mothers' aspirations, experiences

In the name of absent fathersand other men

"Is this what motherhood is all about?"Weaving experiences

It's a woman cry for help' A relational perspective on postnatal depression

Lone motherhood and socio-economic disadvantage

Maternity and Freedom Australian Feminist Encounters with the Reproductive Body

Meanings of lone motherhood within a broader family context

Mother-Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity

Motherhood and "Moral Career" Discourses of Good Motherhood Among Southeast
Mothering, class and rationality

Mother courage reflections on maternal resilience
Mothering, human capital and the 'ideal immigrant'

Motherhood, paid work and partnering values and theories

Mother-Infant Dyad the cradle of meaning

Mothers in the making? Exploring liminality in cyber/space

Oi Mother, Keep Ye' Hair On! Impossible Transformations

Reconceiving citizenship The challenge of mothers as political activists

Narrative identity and the re-conceptualization of lone motherhood

Parenting gone wired empowerment of new mothers

Refracted selves? a study of changes in self-identity

The 'individualized'(woman)in the academy Beck, gender and power

"The sacred impulse of maternal devotion" Austen's critique

Teaching motherhood in history

To theorize in a more passionate way Carol Lee Bacchi's diary

Timing Motherhood Experiencing and Narrating the Choice

To be or not to be a mother? Women negotiating cultural representations

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Conflict in the transitions to becoming a mother a psych-social approach

Mother courage reflections on maternal resilience

Mother, Keep Ye' Hair On! Impossible Transformations of Maternal Subjectivity

Theory and Practice Psychoanalytic Sociology as Psycho-Social Studies
Two bodies in the room an intersubjective view of female objectification

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Agency and experience gender as a lived relation

Imagined childhoods modernity, self and childhood in autobiographical accounts

In Search of a 'Good Mix' Race, Class, Gender

Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction

Social work Individualization and Life Politics

--- Transition to Parenthood ---

A prime time for marital/relational intervention

Division of Labor and Working-Class Womens Well-Being

It looks good on paper transitions of care between midwives and child

Parenthood experiences during the child's first year

Parenting Stress among Adolescent Mothers in the Transition to Adulthood

Postnatal depression among mothers in the United Arab Emirates

Prediction of postpartum depression by sociodemographic, obstetric and psychological factors

Resilient Young Mothering Social Inequalities, Late Modernity

The construction of motherhood tasks, relational connections, and gender equality

The division of labour across the transition to parenthood

The transition to Coparenthood parents' prebirth expectations

Transitions to Parenthood His Hers and Theirs

Transitions to Parenthood work-family policies, gender, and the couple context

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