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 Deborah Dempsey
Lecturer in Sociology
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
John St, Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Australia
Postal address:
PO Box 218 Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Phone: 61 3 9214 4374
Fax: 61 3 9819 0574
Email: DDempsey@groupwise.swin.edu.au

Belinda Hewitt
Senior Research Fellow
Employment and Education Program
Institute for Social Science Research
The University of Queensland
Room 409, Level 4, GPN3 Building, Campbell Road
ST LUCIA QLD 4072
Tel: 617 3346 7472
Fax: 617 3346 7646
Email: b.hewitt@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.issr.uq.edu.au

Group Members

Alison McIntosh

Amanda Hosking

Amy Shields Dobson

Angela Dwyer

Ann Evans

Archana Preeti Jetti

Arundina Dijah Retno Pratiwi

Barbara Cosson

Belinda Hewitt

Brigid Henley

Briony Horsfall

CUONG LA

Caroline Cox

Cassie Curryer

Cate Morriss

Catherine Kowalski

Catherine Waldby

Cathryn Hunter

Christina Malatzky

Christine Tillig

Clare Bartholomaeus

Daniela Stehlik

Deborah Dempsey

Deborah Lupton

Donna Read

Dragica Veselinovic

Duncan Munnings

Eloise Zoppos

Emily Rose

Emma Kirby

Fiona Brookes

Gemma Edgar

Genine Hook

Harry Blatterer

Indigo Willing

Jacinthe Flore

Jaleh McCormack

Janeen Baxter

Jessica Gunson

Jo Lindsay

Joel Robert McGregor

John Scott

Jui-shan Chang

Juliet Richters

Kate Cornwall

Katherine Carroll

Kathryn Daley

Kirsten McLean

Kirsti Rawstron

Kristin Natalier

Kristin Lehmann

Kyja Noack-Lundberg

Kylie Sait

Laura Gobey

Lauren Sanford

Lien Le

Lisa Worthington

Louise Meroni

Luke Gahan

Lyn Craig

Maelisa McNeil

Mara Yerkes

Margaret Tiyce

Maria Carolina Hernandez Losada

Mashitah Hamidi

Maureen Baker

Meg Carter

Meredith Nash

Michael Gilding

Michael Flood

Michelle Skinner

Millsom Henry-Waring

Mohammad Salehin

Monika Dryburgh

Nafiseh Ghafournia

Natasha Cortis

Nicola Pitt

Patrick McMaster

Paul Priday

Penelope Robinson

Peter Robinson

Petya Fitzpatrick

Pol Dominic McCann

Rachael Saward-Boric

Raelene Wilding

Riki Lane

Robert Buttigieg

Roger Patulny

Roger Wilkinson

Rose van Dijk

Sabrina Makaroff

Sally Pascoe

Seforosa Carroll

Shari Bonnette

Sharon Pitman

Sharon Ee Ling Quah

Sheree Gregory

Susan Kentlyn

Teresa Flynn

Tristan Kennedy

Vanessa Leahy

Vickie Wormington

Virginia Mapedzahama

Yarrow Andrew