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.
1997 Nancy E. Dowd In Defense of Single-Parent Families USA
1998 Kathleen Kiernan, Hilary Land, and Jane Lewis:
Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Britain - From Footnote to Front
Page 346 pages 7.5.1998
a link
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
2014 Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay Lone Parent Families:
Gender, Class and State
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
Violence against women
1736 "the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by
himself upon his lawful wife". [England]
1765-1769 Wiiliam Blackstone on
husband and
wife
1797 "the husband... cannot himself commit a rape on his
own wife, who has surrendered her person to him" [Scotland]
1976 Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act
1978 Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act
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"
30.3.1989 Scottish Appeal Court explained its ruling on
rape in marriage.
23.10.1991 UK Law Lords agreed that "in modern times the
supposed
marital exemption in rape forms no part of the law of England".
[1991] UKHL 12 REGINA v R. (APPELLANT)
1992 Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill failed to pass UK
Parliament.
20.12.1993
General Assembly of the
United Nations "Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women"
1995: Beijing
Declaration
and Platform for Action includes sections on Violence against
Women and Human Rights of Women
1996:
Hester, Kelly and Radford 1996 (Editors) Women, Violence and Male
Power
1996: UK Family Law Act
21.3.1997 UK Protection from Harassment Act
1997:
UK Election 1997
2000:
Home truths about domestic violence
2000
Gender, violence and the social order Jayne Mooney
2004 Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act
2005
World Conference on Prevention of Family Violence 2005
2007
Encyclopedia of domestic violence
2011
Review of Domestic Violence policies in England and Wales
23.7.2013
Guardian blog on drive to change attitudes
towards violence against women.
2013 Rachael Pierotti
"Increasing Rejection of Intimate Partner Violence. Evidence of Global
Cultural Diffusion"
Globalisation
Reading list on Institute of Economic Affairs
website
Globalisation and Culture by John Tomlinson
Media, Culture and Society. An introduction by Paul Hodkinson
Catching history on the wing : Race, Culture and Globalisation by A.
Sivanadan
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
Grounded Theory
1967
Discovery of Grounded Theory.
Strategies for Qualitative Research by Barney Glaser and
Anselm Strauss
1993 Paul Hodkinson
"Grounded Theory and Inductive Research" in Nigel Gilbert
Researching Social
Life
2006
Kathy Charmaz Constructing Grounded Theory: A practical guide
through qualitative analysis