Category: Children, Families and Community

Political science has a rich tradition of empirical work on women and gender in governmental institutions. Legislative studies, in particular, has benefited from the attentions of scholars who have sought to “gender political institutions” by emphasizing the gendered aspects of the formal governmental arena. Among the main focuses of these studies are questions around: the…Continue Reading Electing to Do Women’s Work? Gendered Divisions of Labor in UK Select Committees, 1979-2016

This article describes a two-phased reflexive ethical process initiated when choosing digital cameras for the photovoice method in research with men living in low income contexts. While this participatory method aims to flatten power asymmetries in researcher-researched relationships, debate is needed about how pragmatic technology choices may inadvertently underscore or even reinforce participants’ situated experiences…Continue Reading The Ethics of Technology choice: Photovoice methodology with men living in low-income contexts

This paper extends our understanding of how university students make sense of, and respond to, sexual violence in the night-time economy (NTE). Based on semi-structured interviews with 26 students in a city in England, we examine students’ constructions of their experiences of sexual violence within the NTE, exploring their negotiations with, and resistance to, this…Continue Reading A balancing act: Agency and constraints in university students’ understanding of and responses to sexual violence in the night-time economy

        This study aimed to explore the allocation of family work among male carer/female breadwinner couples in comparison to traditional couples, in an attempt to identify the most change-resistant aspects of gendered family roles. A sample of 236 parents with children from birth to 5 years old completed extensive questionnaires about their…Continue Reading Doing and undoing gender in male carer/female breadwinner families

This article contributes to theoretical debates around caring masculinity, especially attempts to integrate feminist ethics of care with masculinities scholarship. I apply ethics of care and masculinities theories to an illustrative case study of fathers’ rights group (FRG), (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, who, I argue, employ aspects of care perspectives framed as a “new man/new…Continue Reading Masculinizing Care? Gender, Ethics of Care, and Fathers’ Rights Groups

Poverty is rising for all groups – even those in work – according to a new financial inclusion monitor report. Research from the University of Birmingham and the University of Lincoln shows nearly 1.6 million people falling behind with council tax payments, with six in ten people in the poorest fifth of the population reporting they…Continue Reading Millions struggling to pay council tax and other essential bills, says new Financial Inclusion Study

This article bridges the gap between referenda and foreign policy, emphasizing the role of non-state entities as (f)actors of change in the formulation of foreign policy. Using a multi-layered (rather than a normative) analysis, it examines the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a novel, non-state case in the international relations and foreign policy analysis literature….Continue Reading Non-state actors and change in foreign policy: the case of a self-determination referendum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq