Barbara Hobson
Curriculum Vitae
September 2011
Name: Barbara M. Hobson
Current Position: Professor of
Sociology, Stockholm University
Academic and Research Positions
• Professor of
Sociology, Stockholm University, 1998-2008
• Director
Advanced Research School in Comparative Gender Studies 1995-2002
• Research Fellow,
Swedish Collegium for the Advanced Studies of the Social Sciences,
Uppsala, 1995.
• Director of
Graduate Studies, International Graduate School, Stockholm University,
1992.1995
• Research
Director for Gender and Work Theme: Arbetslivscentrum, 1991
• Research fellow
and guest lecturer, University of Chicago, Center the Study of
Politics, History and Culture, 1988-1990
• Research Fellow,
Murray Research Center, Harvard University, 1988-89
• Research Fellow
Radcliff Institute, Harvard University, 1986-87
• Research Fellow,
Harvard University, Center for European Studies, 1985-86
Research area: Political Sociology
--Gender, Citizenship and Welfare
Regimes
--Social Movements
--Recognition: Gender and Diversity:
Current Research: Network and Projects
Norface Network:Multi-dimensional
Equality and Democratic Diversities (DEMDI).
International Network and Program
Grant: The EU, North America and the Challenge of Global Policymaking
for Care Work
International Network: Political and
Social Economy of Care in Globalising World (PASEC). Research Program
connected with European network, REASESS
Applying a Capabilities and Agency
Approach to Gender, Work and Welfare States: Strand Coordinator
for Family, Employment and Welfare in the Network of Excellence: 6th
Framework The Relationship between the Labour Market, Employment and
Welfare Regimes (RECWOWE).
Network: Governing gender relations
in migration
Partner in EUDIGROM, Ethnic
Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an
Enlarged Europe
Selected Research Projects: since 2000
• Swedish partner:
in the UN Program,"Social Policy in a Development Context.” sponsored
by United Nations Institute for Research and Development
Institute
• ESF Research
Network, Member 2005 “Revisiting the Concepts of Contract and Status
under Changing Employment, Welfare and Gender Relations,” Coordinator
Jacqueline O’Reilly, Department of Sociology, Sussex University.
• Swedish Partner
in EU project: Research on Social Integration and Social Exclusion.
European Community Targeted Socio-Economic Research Area III,
2000-2002.
• Swedish Partner,
Gender Dimensions of Policy Regimes: Project funded ¬by European
Community Mobility Studies, 1997-2000
• Riksbankens
Jubeleumsfond, Advanced Research Program, Citizenship and Welfare
States, 1996-2001
Professional Activities
• Guest Professor,
COE, Kyoto University, April 2010
• Editor and
founder of the international journal: Social Politics:
International Studies of Gender State and Society, published by
Oxford University Press.
• Editorial Board,
Critical Social Policy
• Strand
Coordinator for EU Network of Excellence, RECWOWE, 6th Framework.
• Project
Reviewer for European Commission, European Science Foundation, Bank of
Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubeliumsfond) Swedish
Science Foundation (Vetenskåpsrådet)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
• Recognition
Struggles: Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Cultural Claims,
Contested Identities, Power and Agency. Cambridge University.
Press. 2003
• Making Men into
Fathers: Men. Masculinities, and the Social Politics of
Fatherhood. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Contested
Concepts in Gender and Social Politics. Barbara Hobson with Jane Lewis
and Birte Siim, Edward Elgar. 2002.
• Gender and
Citizenship in Transition .London: Macmillan Press, 1999.
“Introduction” and “Economic Citizenship: Reflections Through the
European Union Policy Mirror.”
• Uneasy Virtue:
The Politics of Prostitution and the American ¬Reform Tradition.
Paperback edition, with a new introduction¬ University of Chicago
Press, 1990; Hardcover, Basic Books, 1987.
Selected Key Articles
• “Tensions in
Aspirations, Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work Family Balance:
A comparison of Sweden and Hungary." (with J. Takács and S. Fahlén).
Social Politics, 2011
• “Competing
Frames in Gender, Family and Responsibility: From rights and
obligations to rights and capabilites." In Transforming Families.
Regulating Responsibilities: eds. Jo Bridgeman and Heather Keating.
Forthcoming Ashgate: Surrey, 2011.
• “Two Scenarios
for European Fathers: Adversity and Risk? Opportunities and Agency for
a Work Family Balance.” Annals, Journal of the University of
Pennsylvania Press. 2009 (with Susanne Fahlén)
• “European
Exports and Imports: How gender and ethnic minority groups in Sweden
use EU institutions and venues.” Gender Issues and Women’s Movements in
the Expanding European Union, ed. Birgit Sauer Berghahn Books, 2008
(with Zenia Hellegren).
• “Cultural
Conflict and Cultural Dialogues in the Good Society: The Case of Honour
Killings in Sweden” (with Zenia Hellgren). Ethnicities, 2008 Special
issue editors Anne Phillips and Sawitri Sarhasa 2008.
• “Recognition
Struggles in Trans-national Arenas: Negotiating Identities and Framing
Citizenship.” Special Issue; Gender and Diversity, Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy, 2007 (with Marcus Carson
and Rebecca Lawrence). 2007; also reprinted in Contesting Citizenship;
eds. Birte Siim and Judith Squires. London Routledge, 2008.
• ”Birthstrikes?
Agency and capabilities in the reconciliation of employment and
family.” Journal of Marriage and Family Review 2006: 39:1(with Liva
Oláh)
• "Tournant
positif ou 'grève des ventres' ? Formes de résistance au modèle de
l'homme gagne-pain et à la restructuration de l'État-providence", in
Recherches et Prévisions, 2006 n°83, mars: 61-78.
• Men and Worklife
Balance: Which men, which policies and which institutional contexts? In
Children, Family Policies and Welfare State Change, edited by Jane
Lewis Edward Elgar, 2006 (with A. Z. Duvander, and K Halldén
• “The Evolution
of the Women Friendly State: Opportunities and Constraints in the
Swedish Welfare State.” In Gender and Social Policy, edited by Shireen
Hassim och Shahra Razavi (UNRSID project on Gender and social Policy).
Palgrave, 2006.
• “Feminist
Theories and Feminisms in Political Sociology.” In A Handbook of
Political Sociology: States, Civil Societies and Globalization
eds. T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks, M. Schwartz. Cambridge
University Press, 2005
"The Individual Worker, the Gender
Participatory and the Gender Equity Models in Sweden." Social Policy
and the Society; 2003: 2:1
• “The interplay
Between Identities and Institutions: The Centrality of Paid Work and
Swedish Women’s Mobilization in Periods of Welfare State Expansion and
Retrenchment.” In Women in Japan and Sweden: Work and Family in Two
Welfare Regimes, eds Carl le Grand and Toshiko Tsukaguchi. Stockholm:
Almqvist and Wicksell, 2003.
• Women’s
Collective Agency, Power Resources and the Framing of
Citizenship,” in Extending Citizenship: Reconfiguring States, eds.
Michael Hannagan and Charles Tilly. Boulder Colorado: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1998.
• “Women's
Collectivities, Power Resources and the Making of Welfare¬ States,"
Theory and Society. 26: 475-508, 1997 (with Marika Lindholm). Reprinted
and Translated into German and Spanish publications.
• “Svensk
jämställdhetspolitik speglad i EG-domstolens policy.” Ljusnande framtid
eller långt farväl? Den svensk välfärdsstaten i jämförande
belysning. SOU 1997: 115. Contribution to the Swedish
Commission on the Division of Economic Resources and Economic Power.
Fritzes: 1997
• Frauenbewegung
für Staatsbürgerrechte-Das Beispiel. Schweden.“ (Women’s Movements and
Citizenship: The Case of Sweden.) Feminisistche Studien (Feminist
Studies), 14: 2: 7-18, 1996.
• Lone Motherhood
and Weak Male Breadwinner Models: The Case of ¬Sweden” in Lone
Mothers and Welfare Policy Regimes, ed. Jane Lewis , London: Jessica
Kingsley, ¬ 1997 (with Mieko Takahashi).
• Lone Motherhood
and Weak Male Breadwinner Models: The Case of ¬Sweden” in Lone
Mothers and Welfare Policy Regimes, ed. Jane Lewis , London: Jessica
Kingsley, ¬ 1997 (with the assistance of Mieko Takahashi).
• Welfare Policy
Regimes, Solo Mothers, and the Logics of ¬Gender," in Gendering
Welfare States ed. Diane Sainsbury. ¬London, Sage 1994.
• "Gendered
Discourses and Feminist Strategies in Welfare States:¬ The Debate Over
Married Women's Right to Work in Sweden and the U.S.:" in Mothers of
the New World: Origins of Welfare States¬ in Western Europe and North
America, eds. Seth Koven and Sonya ¬Michel, London: Routledge, 1993.
• "No Exit, No
Voice: Married Women's Economic Dependency and the¬ Welfare State,"
Acta Sociologica, 33: 3: 235-250, 1990.
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last updated: September 6, 2011