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Mothering in a Pandemic: Navigating Care Work, Intensive Motherhood, and COVID-19
Even before COVID-19, women around the world performed more unpaid domestic labor, specifically unpaid care labor, than men. COVID-19 has only...
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Sensitive Child, Disturbed Kid: Stigma, Medicalization, and the Interpretive Work of Israeli Mothers of Children with ADHD
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a rapidly globalizing medical category, and there is a need to attend to the on the-ground...
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‘Mums Are Mums’. Negotiations of Parenthood Ideals Among Swedish Mothers with ADHD
The aim of this chapter is to explore Motherhood ideology from the perspective of mothers with a neuropsychiatric diagnosis. The analysis draws on...
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Close Relations and Boundary Work: Family, Kinship and Beyond
Questions about, and definitions of, close relations often raise heated debate, for they concern fundamental ideas about personal and collective...
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Exploring Swedish ‘Family Planning’: Reproductive Racism and Reproductive Justice
In Sweden, during the parliamentary election campaign in 2022, birth control and family planning were identified as practices that could solve all...
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Coresidence with Grandparents and Children’s Socioemotional Health in Kindergarten
This study explores linkages between various living arrangements with and without grandparents and children’s socioemotional functioning in...
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Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman Who Drinks
This chapter considers parental determinism and risk consciousness by exploring the insistence that what happens when a woman is pregnant determines...
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Babies’ Brains and Parenting Policy: The Insensitive Mother
This chapter explores how, since the late 1990s, ‘brain claims’ entered parenting discourse, first in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the...
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Life-Cycle Development
This chapter is devoted to inequality from a life cycle perspective. The focus is on mechanisms that tend to generate (or possibly dampen)...
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Filling in the Gaps – Alternative Schools in French Rural Areas: From the Dismantling of Public Education to a New Horizon for Educational Entrepreneurs
Develo** a geographical analysis, this paper questions the recent and accelerated diffusion of “alternative” schools (mobilizing alternative...
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Cumulative Inequality and the Welfare State
To understand more about the types of care work that grandparents provide when their grandchildren have disabilities, as well as the impact of that...
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The politics of Danish IVF: reproducing the nation by making parents through selective reproductive technologies
In this article, we look at how the politics of reproduction take form in Denmark when people are denied access to IVF. Approaching IVF as a...
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Parenting and Gender
This chapter explores the sociological literature on the many ways in which parenting is both gendered and gendering. That exploration attends to the...
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Introduction: Challenging Sociality
In this chapter, I explore how robots are added to a long lineage of things that children with autism can relate to better than to other humans. I...
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Extrinsic Barriers to Learning
This chapter details productions and contestations of learners’ ‘specialness’. Its first section focuses upon the judgements that members of staff...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment: Socio-ecological and Psychological Origins of Maternal Risk
Most reports of child maltreatment implicate mothers, although fathers and stepfathers play a significant role especially in severe or lethal forms...
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Mothering with Neuroscience in a Neoliberal Age: Child Disorders and Embodied Brains
The chapter examines the proliferating use of neuroscientific discourse to frame child development through qualitative data from two sources:...
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The Politics of Racial Disproportionality of the Child Welfare System in New York
The aim of this chapter is to examine the analytical category of racial disproportionality in the New York City child welfare system. Racial...
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The Double-Bind: Looked After Children, Care Leavers and Criminal Justice
Research attention has focused on the reasons that lead young people from care to come into contact with the justice system at higher rates than...