I Welfare state and gender equality
@Daly, M. (2011) What adult worker model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective. Social Politics 18(1): 1-23. (24p.).
@Duvander, A.-Z. & Ellings?ter (2016) Cash for childcare schemes in the Nordic welfare states: diverse paths, diverse outcomes. European Societies 18(1): 70-90. (21 p).
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).
@Ellings?ter, A.L. (2013) Scandinavian welfare states and gender (de)segregation – trends and processes. Economic and Industrial Democracy 34(3): 501-518 (18 p.)
@Ellings?ter, A.L. & E. Pedersen (2015) Institutional trust: Family policy and fertility in Norway, Social Politics,doi: 10.1093/sp/jxv003, p. 1-23 (23 p.).
@Ellings?ter, A.L., Kitter?d, R.H. & Lyngstad, J. (2016) Universalising Childcare, Changing Mothers’ Attitudes: Policy Feedback in Norway. Journal of Social Policy, online first. (25 p.)
@Eydal, G.B. et al. (2015) Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries: has the forward march of gender equality halted? Community, Work & Family 18(2): 167-181 (15 p.).
@Keck, W. & Saraceno, C. (2013) The impact of different social-policy frameworks on social inequalities among women in the EU: the labour market participation of mothers. Social Politics 20(3): 297-328 (32 p.).
@McDonald, P. (2000) Gender equity, social institutions and the future of fertility. Journal of Population Research 17(1): 1-16 (16 s).
@Skevik, A.G. (2014) A review of family demographics and family policy in the Nordic countries, Baltic Journal of Political Science, no. 3.: 50-66 (17 p.)
@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).
372 p.
II Family forms and practices: change and diversity
@Brandth, B. & E. Kvande (2016) Fathers and flexible leave. Work, employment and society, 30(2): 275-290 (16 p.).
@Crompton, R. (2006) Class and family. The Sociological Review 54(4): 658-677 (20 p.).
@Kitter?d, R.H. and R?nsen, M. (2013) Opting out? Who are the housewives in contemporary Norway? European Sociological Review, advance access (14p.)
@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)
@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).
@Lappeg?rd, T. & Noack, T. (2015) The link between parenthood and partnership in contemporary Norway – Findings from focus group research. Demographic Research (16 p.)
@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.)
@Raley, S., Bianchi, S.M. & Wang, W (2012): When Do fathers Care? Mothers' Economic Contribution and Fathers' Involvement in Child Care. American Journal of Sociology, 117 (5): 1422-59 (38 p.)
@R?nsen, M. & H. Kitter?d (2015) Gender-Equalizing Family Policies and Mothers' Entry into Paid Work: Recent Evidence From Norway. Feminist Economics 21(1): 59-89 (21 p).
@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.)
@Stefansen, K. & Farstad, G. (2010) Classed parental practices in a modern welfare state: Caring for the under threes in Norway. Critical Social Policy 30(1): 120-141 (22 p.).
@Syltevik, L.J (2014): Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972-2010. The History of the Family (16 p.)
@Wiik, K. Aa, Seierstad, A. & Noack, T. (2014) Divorce in Norwegian Same-Sex Marriages and Registered Partnerships: The Role of Children. Journal of Marriage and Family 76:919-929 (21 p.)
259 p.
III Families and personal relationships
@Bjerrum Nielsen, H & Rudberg, M (2007) Fun in Gender – Youth and Sexuality, Class and Generation. NORA 15(2-3): 100-113 (14 p.).
@Brannen, J. & Nilsen, A. (2005) Individualisation, choice and structure: a discussion of current trends in sociological analysis. The Sociological Review 53(3): 412-428(17p.).
@Duncan, S ( 2011) The world we have made? Individualisation and personal life in the 1950s. The Sociological Review 59(2): 242-265 (24 p.).
@Forsberg, L. (2007) Negotiating involved fatherhood: Houshold work, childcare and spending time with children. NORMA(2(2): 109-126 (18 p.).
@Magnusson, E. (2008): The Retoric of Inequality: Nordic Women and Men Argue against Sharing House-work. NORA 16 (2): 79-95 (17p.)
@Roseneil, S. & Budgeon, S. (2004) Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond “the Family”: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century”. Current Sociology 52 (2):135-159. (25 p.)
@Rudberg, M & Bjerrum Nielsen, H (2012) The making of a ‘new man’: Psychosocial change in a generational context. Journal of Psycho-Social Studies 6(1): 55-71 (17 p.).
@Smart, C. (2011) Families, Secrets and Memories. Sociology 45(4): 539-553 (15p.).
@Usdansky, M. L (2011)The Gender-Equality Paradox: Class and Incongruity Between Work-Family Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of Family Theory & Review 3 pp.163–178 (16 p).
@Widerberg, K. (2010) In the Homes of Others: Exploring New Sites and Methods When investigating the Doings of Gender, Class and Ethnicity. Sociology 44(6): 1181-1196 (16 p).
@Wiik, K.A. et al. (2009) A study of commitment and relationship quality in Sweden and Norway, Journal of Marriage and Family 71(3): 465-477. (13p.)
@Aarseth, H. (2007) Between Labour and Love: The Re-erotization of Home-making in Egalitarian Couples within a Nordic Context. NORA 15(2): 133 – 143. (11p.).
203 p.
Total: 834 p.
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