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Welfare state and gender equality
@Daly, M. (2011) What adult worker model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective. Social Politics 18(1): 1-23. (24p.). Full text
@Duvander,A.-Z. et al. (2010) Family policy and fertility: fathers’ and mothers’ use of parental leave and continued childbearing in Norway and Sweden, Journal of European Social Policy 20(1): 45-57 (12 p.) Full text
Ellingsæter, A.L. and A. Leira (eds) (2006) Politicising parenthood in Scandinavia. Gender relations in welfare states. Bristol: Policy Press, chapters 1-4,6, 9, 12 (161 p).
@Ellingsæter, A.L. (2013) Scandinavian welfare states and gender (de)segregation – trends and processes. Economic and Industrial Democracy 34(3): 501-518 (18 p.) Full text
@Eydal, G. B. & Rostgaard, T. (2011) Gender Equality Revisited – Changes in Nordic Childcare Policies in the 2000s. Social Policy & Administration 45(2): 161-179. (18 p). Full text
@Fraser, N. (1994) After the Family Wage: Gender Equality and the Welfare State. Political Theory 22: 591-618 (28 p.) Full text
@Haas, L. & Rostgaard, T. (2011) Fathers’ right to parental leave in the Nordic countries: consequences for the gendered division of leave. Community, Work & Family 14(2): 177-195 (19 p.). Full text
@Hegewisch, A. & Gornick, J. C. (2011) The impact of work-family policy on women`s employment: a review of research from OECD countries. Community, Work & Family 14(2): 119-135 (17 p.) Full text
@McDonald, P. (2000) Gender equity, social institutions and the future of fertility. Journal of Population Research 17(1): 1-16 (16 s). Full text
@Orloff, A. (2008) Feminist Social Policies for a Post-maternalist Era: Gender Equality Projects in Europe and America. (26 p.). Full text
@Thevenon, O. & Gauthier, A. H. (2011) Family policies in developed countries: a ‘fertility-booster’ with side effects. Community, Work & Family 14(2): 197-216 (20 p). Full text
347 p.
Family forms and practices: change and diversity
@Crompton, R. (2006) Class and family. The Sociological Review 54(4): 658-677 (20 p.). Full text
@Jensen, A.-M. & Clausen, S.-E. (2003) Children and family dissolution in Norway. The impact of Consensual Unions. Childhood 10(1): 65–81 (16 p.). Full text
@Kitterød, R.H. and Rønsen, M. (2013) Opting out? Who are the housewives in contemporary Norway? European Sociological Review, advance access (14p.) Full text
@Kitterød, R. H and Rønsen, M (2012) Non-traditional dual earners in Norway: when does she work at least as much as he? Work, Employment and Society 26(4) 657–675. (18 p) Full text
@Kitterød, R. H. & Pettersen, S. (2006): Making up for mothers’ employed working hours? Housework and childcare among Norwegian fathers. Work, Employment and Society 20(3):473-492 (19 p). Full text
@Levin, Irene (2004) Living Apart Together: A New Family Form. Current Sociology 52(2): 223–240. (17 p.) Full text
@Mastekaasa, A, & Birkelund, G. E. (2011) The equality effect of wives earnings on inequalities in earnings among households. European Societies 13(2): 219-238 (20 p.) Full text
@Noack, T. (2001) Cohabitation in Norway - An increasingly common, and gradually accepted way of living, Int. J. of Law, Policy and the Family 15(1): 102-117 (15 p.) Full text
@Noack, T. et al (2005) A demographic analysis of registered partnerships (same-sex unions): The case of Norway", European Journal of Population 21(1): 89-109 (21 p.). Full text
@O'Brien, M., Brandth, B & Kvande, E. (2007) Fathers, work and family life. Community, Work and Family, 10(4): 375-386 (11 p.) Full text
@Plantin, Lars (2007): Different classes, different fathers? Community, Work & Family, 10:1, 93-110. (17 p.) Full text
@Raley, S., Bianchi, S.M. & Wang, W (2012): When Do fathers Care? Mothers' Economic Contribution and Fathers' Involvement in Child Care. American Journal of Sociology, 117 (5): 1422-59 (38 p.) Full text
@Skevik, A. (2006) “Absent fathers” or “reorganized families”? Variations in father-child contact after parental break-up in Norway. The Sociological Review 54(1): 114–132 (18 p.) Full text
244 p.
Families and personal relationships
@Bjerrum Nielsen, H & Rudberg, M (2007) Fun in Gender – Youth and Sexuality, Class and Generation. NORA 15(2-3): 100-113 (14 p.). Full text
@Brannen, J. & Nilsen, A. (2005) Individualisation, choice and structure: a discussion of current trends in sociological analysis. The Sociological Review 53(3): 412-428(17p.). Full text
@Duncan, S ( 2011) The world we have made? Individualisation and personal life in the 1950s. The Sociological Review 59(2): 242-265 (24 p.). Full text
@Edwards, R. and Gillies, V. (2012a) Farewell to family? Notes on an argument for retaining the concept. Families, Relationships and Societies 1(1): 63-9. (7p.) Full text
@Edwards, R. and Gillies, V. (2012b) Farewell to family? A reply. Families, Relationships and Societies 1(3): 431-434. (4p.) Full text
@Forsberg, L. (2007) Negotiating involved fatherhood: Houshold work, childcare and spending time with children. NORMA(2(2): 109-126 (18 p.). Full text
@Magnusson, E. (2008): The Retoric of Inequality: Nordic Women and Men Argue against Sharing House-work. NORA 16 (2): 79-95 (17p.) Full text
@May, V. (2012) Are we really saying farewell to family? Families, Relationships and Societies 1(3): 415-421. (7p.) Full text
@Roseneil, S. & Budgeon, S. (2004) Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond “the Family”: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century”. Current Sociology 52 (2):135-159. (25 p.) Full text
@Rudberg, M & Bjerrum Nielsen, H (2012) The making of a ‘new man’: Psychosocial change in a generational context. Journal of Psycho-Social Studies 6(1): 55-71 (17 p.). Full tekst
@Smart, C. (2011) Families, Secrets and Memories. Sociology 45(4): 539-553 (15p.). Full text
@ Usdansky, M. L (2011)The Gender-Equality Paradox: Class and Incongruity Between Work-Family Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of Family Theory & Review 3 pp.163–178 (16 p). Full text
@Wetlesen, T.S. (2010) Balancing work and childcare – the legacy of a gender equality experiment. Community, Work & Family 13(4): 447-466 (20 p.) Full text
@Widerberg, K. (2010) In the Homes of Others: Exploring New Sites and Methods When investigating the Doings of Gender, Class and Ethnicity. Sociology 44(6): 1181-1196 (16 p). Full text
@Wiik, K.A. et al. (2009) A study of commitment and relationship quality in Sweden and Norway, Journal of Marriage and Family 71(3): 465-477. (13p.) Full text
@Wilkinson, E & Bell, D. (2012) Ties that blind: on not seeing (or looking) beyond ‘the family. Families, Relationships and Societies 1(3): 423-429. (7p.). Full text
@Aarseth, H. (2007) Between Labour and Love: The Re-erotization of Home-making in Egalitarian Couples within a Nordic Context. NORA 15(2): 133 – 143. (11p.). Full text
248 p.
Total: 839 p.
Further Reading
@Bettio, F. and Plantenga, J. (2008) "Comparing Care Regimes in Europe". Feminist Economics. 10:1, 85-113. (28 p). Full text
@Eggebø, H. (2011) The problem of dependency: immigration, gender and the welfare state. Social Politics 17(3): 295-322. (28p.) Full text
@Ellingsæter, A.L (2009): "Leave policy in the Nordic welfare states: a‘recipe’ for high employment/high fertility?" in Community, Work & Family, 12:1, 1-19 (18 p.) Full text
@Ellingsæter, A.L. & Gulbrandsen, L. (2007) Closing the child care gap: The interaction of childcare supply and mothers’ agency in Norway. Journal of Social Policy 36(4): 649-669 (21 p.) Full text
@ Gornic . J. D. and Heron, A. (2006) "The regulation of working time as work-family reconciliation policy: Comparing Europe, Japan, and the United States". Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Research and Practice Volume 8, Issue 2, 2006 Special Issue: Work-Family Reconciliation Policies: Theory and Practice, 149-166 (17 p) Full text
@Hobson, B. & Oláh, L. (2006) Birthstrikes? Agency and capabilities in the Reconciliation of Employment and Family. Marriage and Family Review 39(3-4): 197-227 (31 p.) Full text
@Kitterød, R. H. (2002) Mother’s housework and childcare: Growing Similarities or Stable Inequalities? Acta Sociologica 45(2): 127-149. (22 p.) Full text
@Leitner, S. (2003) "Varieties of Familialism: The Caring Function of the Family in Comparative perspective". European Societies, 5:4, 353-375 (22 p). Full text
@Lewis, J. & Giullari, S. (2005) The adult worker model and care: the search for new policy principles and the possibilities and problems of a capabilities approach. Economy and Society 34(1): 76-104 (29p) Full text
@Lister, R. (2009) A Nordic Nirvana? Gender, Citizenship, and Social Justice in the Nordic Welfare States. Social Politics 16(2): 242-278 (37 p). Full text
@Saraceno, C and Keck, W (2011) "Towards an integrated approach for the analysis of gender equity in policies supporting paid work and care responsibilities". Demographic Research, 2011, Vol.25, p.11 (38 p) Full text
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