Deadline for Abstracts: Friday November 8th 2024
A Routledge Companion to Gender and the Family comes at a crucial time when scholars are debating how, and why, the family remains divided along ‘traditional’ male breadwinner and female caregiver lines. It also comes at a time when scholars are beginning to untangle and debate the impact that Covid-19 lockdowns across the globe had upon the gender division of labour within the family. Indeed, the pandemic served to highlight how gender roles within the family are shaped by events external to the family – that gender role norms are not a natural given that exist in a vacuum but are shaped by the society in which we live.
In this context, the Routledge Companion to Gender and the Family seeks to challenge the myth that the traditional nuclear breadwinner- female carer model of the family is natural and static. It does this by examining how cultural assumptions, rather than biology, shape and have shaped, the family ideal over time and space. Moreover, the volume examines the role of society and policy in shaping and reproducing these gender role norms.
Abstract submissions:
We are now inviting abstracts from authors who are interested in contributing a chapter to this edited collection. Abstracts of 250 words long should be submitted no later than Friday 8th November 2024 to the editors Dr Naomi Finch and Dr Linzi Ladlow at gendercompanion@gmail.com We are seeking empirically-based chapters and therefore require a short description of your method in the abstract. The chapters will be subjected to a peer-review process.
Themes:
We are seeking chapters grounded in the area of how culture shapes gender roles and the family, but welcome chapters that explore intersectionalities. This is a global and multidisciplinary collection, and we welcome interdisciplinary chapters and those which include research from different national perspectives, especially cross-national pieces. We are especially interested in the subject areas below.
● The evolution of gender role norms over time, for example:
○ The role of religion
○ Historical perspectives
○ Life course perspectives
● The processes of socialisation and gender role, for example:
○ Role of schools, curriculum, education system etc.
○ Role of the family, parents, grandparents.
○ Socialisation in different family types eg. same sex parents, lone parents, ethnicities, socio-economic etc.
○ Role of social media, pop and peers
○ Different cultural perspectives of socialisation
● Family, gender and the state policy, for example:
○ How cultural gender norms shape and are shaped by state policy
○ Cross-national differences / temporal changes
○ Parental and paternity leave
○ Child support policy
○ Social security policy
● Family, gender and work, for example:
○ Ideal worker norms
○ Cultural norms around gender and work in the global South
○ Gender roles attitudes and gender division of labour in covid
○ Disability, work and gender norms
● Family, gender and care, for example:
○ Barriers to paternal care
○ Childcare policy/markets
○ Sandwich carers
○ Long term care
● The impact of gender role norms and the family, for example:
○ Shared work and care
○ Leisure and wellbeing
○ Financial independence
○ Child wellbeing
○ Education
○ Psychological
Timeline:
Abstract submissions Deadline: Friday November 8th 2024
Abstract decisions: Friday December 6th 2024
Chapters submissions: Friday April 11th 2025
Editor review of chapters: Friday May 23rd 2025
Referee review: Monday September 15th 2025.
Chapters returned to authors with reviewer comments: Tuesday September 30th 2025
NB: Chapters will be between 6000-8000 words. Further guidelines on the format will be shared once abstracts have been selected