Barbara Hobson
Selected International
Book Publications
• Gender and Citizenship in Transition.
London: Macmillan Press, 1999.
• 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.
• Recognition Struggles: Recognition Struggles and
Social Movements: Cultural Claims, Contested Identities, Power and
Agency. Cambridge University. Press. 2003
Selected Key Articles (since 2005)
• "The Agency Gap in Work-Life Balance:
Applying a Capabilities Framework
Within European Institutional Contexts, Social Politics, 2011:18
•
“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, 2011:18.
• “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. 2009:624 (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, forthcoming 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 forthcoming 2008.
• ‘Capabilities and Agency in Work Family Balance:
theoretical and empirical challenges’. State of the Art Paper
(RECWOWE). Warsaw, 2007 . http://recwowe.vitamib.com/rp;
• “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).
• 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
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