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Families, Relationships and Gender

Aims and objectives:

This group aims to facilitate and support research and collaboration on the sociology of families, relationships and gender. We aim to provide a forum to showcase sociological research on Australian families and relationships and the opportunity to bring theoretical insights, empirical research and policy discussions together in conversation and debate.

Topics of interest include:

  • Dating, establishing relationships and family formation
  • Relationships, families and technology
  • Cohabitation and marriage
  • Gay and lesbian relationships
  • Transgender people and relationships
  • Friends, tribes and new households
  • Fertility decision making and reproduction
  • Children and childhood
  • Work, domestic labour and patterns of care
  • Separation, divorce and re-constituted families
  • Domestic violence, neglect and abuse
  • Money and family relationships
  • Mothering, fathering and parenting
  • Love
  • Pornography
  • Family ideologies/ discourses
  • The politics of the family
  • Theoretical and methodological debates

Year established:

March 2008

Convenors

Dr Jo Lindsay
Sociology
School of Political and Social Inquiry
Monash University
Clayton
Vic 3800
Tel: +61 3 9905 2425
Fax: +61 3 9905 2410
Email: Jo.Lindsay@arts.monash.edu.au

Professor Janeen Baxter
School of Social Science
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia. QLD 4072
Tel: +61 7 3365 2871
Fax: +61 7 3365 1544
Email: j.baxter@uq.edu.au

Members:

  • Allison Kirkman
  • Anastasia Powell
  • ann aungles
  • Ann Evans
  • Ann Taylor
  • Belinda Hewitt
  • Bronwyn Davies
  • Deborah Dempsey
  • Deborah W. Keys
  • Dharma Arunachalam
  • Dina Bowman
  • Dorothy Broom
  • Edith Gray
  • Elspeth McInnes
  • Eve Bodsworth
  • Gary Dowsett
  • Genevieve Heard
  • Harry Blatterer
  • Heather Brook
  • Heather D’Cruz
  • Helen Marshall
  • Janeen Baxter
  • JaneMaree Maher
  • Jason Prior
  • Jennifer Wilkinson
  • Jo Lindsay
  • Joanne Rayner
  • John Scott
  • Justine Hotten
  • Karen Lane
  • Karina Butera
  • Katie Hughes
  • Kerry Carrington
  • Kirsten McLean
  • Kristin Natalier
  • Lupton, Deborah
  • Lyn Turney
  • Maureen Baker
  • Maureen Harrington
  • Meg Carter
  • Michael Flood
  • Murray Couch
  • Paula Wright
  • Peter Robinson
  • Phoenix de Carteret
  • Professor Peter McDonald
  • Rhianna Keen
  • Sherry Saggers
  • Simone Fullagar
  • Supriya Singh
  • Suzanne Franzway
  • Tara McGee
  • Viv Hazel
  • Viviane Morrigan
  • Jane Edwards
  • Chris Storm