Syllabus/achievement requirements

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Family and the welfare state

@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

@Ellings?ter, 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

Ellings?ter, 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).

@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 employment: a review of research from OECD countries. Community, Work & Family 14(2): 119-135 (17 p.) Full text

@Hook, J. L. (2010) Gender Inequality in the Welfare State: Sex Segregation in Housework 1965-2003. American Journal of Sociology 115(5): 1480-1523 (44 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

@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

356 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

@Kitter?d, R. H. (2002) Mother’s housework and childcare: Growing Similarities or Stable Inequalities? Acta Sociologica 45(2): 127-149. (22 p.) Full text

@Kitter?d, 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

@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

@Syltevik, L. J. (2010) Sense and sensibility: cohabitation in ?cohabitation land?. The Sociological Review 58(3):444-462. (18p.) Full text

@Kitter?d, R. H and R?nsen, 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

232 p.

Intergenerational relationships

*Hagestad, Gunhild O. (2003). "Interdependent lives and relationships in changing times: a life-course view of families and aging." I R. Settersten (Ed.) Invitation to the life course. Toward a new understanding of later life. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publ., 135-159 (25 p.)

@Dykstra, P. A. & Fokkema, T. (2011). "Relationships between parents and their adult children: a West European typology of late-life families". I Ageing & Society, 31(4): 545-569 (25 p.). Full text

*Herlofson, K. & Hagestad, G.O. (2012). "Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states". I S. Arber & V. Timonen (Eds.) Contemporary grandparenting. Changing family relationships in global contexts. Bristol: The Polity Press, 27-50 (24p.).

@Bengston, V. L. (2001). "Beyond the nuclear family: the increasing importance of multigenerational bonds". Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(1): 1-16 (17 p.). Full text

91 p

Care in comparative perspective

@Bettio, F. and Plantenga, J. (2008) "Comparing Care Regimes in Europe". Feminist Economics. 10:1, 85-113. (28 p). Full text

@Ellings?ter, 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

@ 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

@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

@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 p

Total: 802 pages

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