Family -
Single Parent or
Lone
Parent
1918 onwards See the history of
The National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child
and for the Widowed or Deserted Mother in Need
1969 The One-parent Family: Perspectives and annotated
bibliography Edited by B. Schlesinger; Editorial consultant, Florence
Strakhovsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
1971
Crellin, Pringle and West Born Illegitimate: Social and
educational implications
1991 Lone Parent Families in the UK by Jonathan Bradshaw and
Jane Millar. Department of Social Security. Research reports; 6.
1992
Families without Fatherhood by Norman Dennis and George
Erdos.
Third edition 2000
1996 Elizabeth Silva Editor Good Enough Mothering?:
Feminist perspectives on lone mothering
1997 Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or
workers? edited by Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards.
1998 BBC News 21.10.1998
Thatcher stirs up single parents
The Guardian, 21.10.1998, p.1: "Thatcher prescribes religion for single
mothers"
2000
"The myths of single mothers, as told by J K Rowling" By Jojo
Moyes, Arts and Media Correspondent The Independent Thursday
5.10.2000
2001
Lone Stars: Portrayal of single mothers on screen
The Guardian 22.2.2001
2008
21.3.2008
First post in Bella DePaulo's
"Living Single The truth about singles in our society" blog
2010
Steve Doughty Mail Online:
"Half of single mothers never live with partner after
being enticed by benefits lifestyle choice" 26.2.2010 -
"Three generations all of them single mothers: Growth
of extended ' man free' families who rely on state handout"
4.3.2010 -
"Single mother Britain: U.K. has most lone parents of
any major European nation" 1.4.2011 -
"Children in single parent families 'worse
behaved" By Graeme Paton, Education Editor The Telegraph
15.10.2010 [Based on 9-10 year olds from the
Millenium Cohort]
2011
Jennifer Ajandi "Single Mothers by Choice: Disrupting dominant
discourses of the family through social justice alternatives"
2011 Kathy. L. Hill and Sam Houston. "Single Mothers how are they
doing?" Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications & Conflict
volume 15, issue 1, 2011, pages 1-10. A USA review of literature. Search
the web and you will probably find a copy. Or see the
2010 Conference Proceedings
Family - Statistics
See
United Kingdom 2001 figures for different type of family
Topic guide to: Families, Children and Young
People at the publications hub of the Office for National
Statistics.
Family -
Traditional
Robert Filmer
John Stuart Mill and
Harriet Taylor
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
-also see
Engels on gender
William Morris - Read about
Home and family - including Forest Children
May be able to use
Burgess and
Locke 1945 The Family
Family and Kinship in East London 1957 - and
2006 update?
Work of
Ronald Fletcher? 1960s and 1980s
Family -
Violence
Domestic violence
Rebecca and Russell
Dobash 1979 1992
1979: "Medicine and patriarchal violence: the social construction of a
"private" event" by Stark E, Flitcraft A, Frazier W. International
Journal of Health Services 1979; 9 (3): pp 461-493.
Abstract
1983:
Carol Herbert "Wife Battering"
Hester, Kelly and Radford 1996 (Editors) Women, Violence and Male
Power
Home truths about domestic violence 2000
Gender, violence and the social order Jayne Mooney 2000
World Conference on Prevention of Family Violence 2005
Encyclopedia of domestic violence 2007
Feminist perspectives
Abbot P and Wallace C and Tyler .M.(2005) 3rd edition. An
Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives Routledge. London
Gender
Rousseau
(Emile) -
Olympe de Gouges -
Wollstonecraft -
Thompson and Wheeler -
Mill and Taylor - Mill -
Mill and Freud -
De Beauvoir -
Juliet
Mitchell -
Judith
Butler
Sisterhood is Global 1984 edited by Robin Morgan
Jackson and Scott 2002
Gender: A Sociological Reader
Catherine Hakim 1979
Occupational Segregation...
Gendered Language - Culture
Dale Spender 1980 Man Made Language and later writings
Globalisation
Reading list on Institute of Economic Affairs
website
Globalisation -
Crime
"Contemporary landscapes of crime, order, and control: governance,
risk, and globalisation" by Ian Loader and Richard Sparks in the
Oxford Handbook of Criminology
"Crime, globalisation and the risk society" in Roger Hopkins Burke
An Introduction to
Criminological
Theory
History
Wikipedia links to
history -
historical sociology
Dennis Smith 1991
The Rise of Historical Sociology
"Historical Sociology" by John Mandalios and "Sociology of Time and Space"
by John Urry in
The Blackwell Companion To Social
Theory
History as Research
Method