A Doucet
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 20028 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Doucet |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Doucet |
| FIRMA | DOUCET A |
| AFILIACIONES | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6000-9029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 817 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
What’s different about rural families? How rurality shapes gender divisions and relations of care/work in families and communities in Canada
For two decades, researchers in the field of ‘gender divisions of domestic labour’ have attended to diversity by studying families with a range of ethnic and racial identities, sexualities, genders (beyond binaries), marital and socioeconomic statuses, and cultures. But one important facet of diversity insufficiently incorporated into much of this research is place, and more specifically, the size, density, and remoteness of the communities in wh…
Ecological issues are care issues and care issues are ecological issues
In contexts of growing care crises and ecological crises, this paper argues that ecological issues are care issues – and care issues are ecological issues. Rooted in a quarter century of research on care theories and policies, and recent writing on ecological theories and epistemologies, I focus on one particular thinker: the late American ecologist Rachel Carson. I ask what care scholars can learn from Carson and I lay out three lessons her work…
Gender Divisions of Domestic Labour During the Covid‐19 Pandemic in Canada
In the wake of widespread disruptions to employment, schooling and childcare early in the COVID‐19 pandemic, fathers’ share of domestic labour increased. Drawing on Canadian survey data from August/September 2021, we investigate whether this was a harbinger of lasting change. We find that dual‐earner parents of young children continued to report modest increases in father involvement in housework and childcare. However, first‐wave household emplo…
Unpredictable Work Schedules and Gender Divisions of Domestic Labor
Unpredictable work schedules dictated by employers can be difficult to reconcile with parental obligations. As such, they may motivate different strategies for managing and dividing domestic labor among partnered parents. Drawing on pooled cross-national survey data of dual-earner heterosexual parents of young children in Canada, Germany, Poland, Italy, Sweden, and the United States, we investigate the relationship between the predictability of p…
Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening
This article examines how methodological approaches shape understandings of domestic responsibilities. Using mixed methods data from Canadian dual-earner households, we compare fathers’ individual survey responses with couple interview accounts about their childcare and housework involvement. Survey and interview data align when assessing tasks – discrete actions with defined boundaries – but diverge when evaluating responsibilities, which involv…
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making
Rooted in a three-year (2018-2021) research collaboration between Indigenous and white settler researchers in Canada, this article asks: how do we use, adapt and remake methods developed in Euro-western contexts for very different geopolitical contexts, specifically Indigenous ones? How do we do this without minimizing the harms caused by Euro-western methods and epistemologies (some of which are ongoing) while providing ample space for Indigenou…
LGBTQ+ Parents' Care and Work Arrangements During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' care and work responsibilities has largely ignored the experiences of LGBTQ+ parents. Most gender divisions of labor studies have actively excluded LGBTQ+ parents and/or failed to ask about parents' sexuality. This mixed-methods study used a combination of an online survey (n = 4683, 350 identifying as non-heterosexual) and virtual interviews (9 interviews with 14 parents) in co…
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to research on work and care. This article details how we reconfigured the Household Portrait - a qualitative, participatory, visual, creative method that engages couples in mapping and discussing their household and care tasks and responsibilities - int…
Care is not a tally sheet
This article addresses two puzzles that are at the heart of the field of gender divisions of domestic labour. How is it that care concepts seldom appear in a field that is focused on unpaid care work? Why does the field focus on divisions rather than on relationships and relationalities ? To address these puzzles, I interrogate some of the conceptual underpinnings in the field’s dominant theories: social exchange and ‘doing gender’. Through a wea…
I don't have the energy”
Significant socio-economic, health, and mental health disparities due to highly entrenched and systemic anti-Black racism in Canadian institutions, policies, and practices are now well documented in research and policy reports. Yet, few in-depth studies have addressed the mental health impacts of anti-Black racism on Canadian populations. This article is rooted in a community-based, qualitative research project with young first and second-generat…
Time is not time is not time
Over the past half century, time-use studies have become a leading method for researching unpaid care work, especially in the multidisciplinary field of gender divisions of household work and care and in feminist international studies on counting and accounting for women's unpaid work. Although attention to conceptual and methodological refinements in time-use methods is increasing, more focus on the challenges of conceptualizing and measuring ca…
Time use studies, time, temporality, and measuring care
More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers' participation in unpaid care work
This article explores two policy pathways – parental leave and flexible work –as complementary policy interventions aimed at promoting gender equality in unpaid care and household work. Drawing on Canadian data from the 2021 International Familydemic Survey, we examine the relationship between fathers' previous use of parental leave, and current use of flexible work arrangements (flextime and remote work), and their involvement in unpaid care wor…
Looking after our own is what we do”
Approximately 7.8 million Canadians juggle paid work and unpaid adult/elder caregiving responsibilities. This balancing act can cause stress, financial burdens, strained relationships, and mental health issues for these employed caregivers. Employed caregivers who are Indigenous have unique challenges and perspectives when it comes to care and work, as our research demonstrates. Our project is part of a larger research project that informs the Ca…
A decolonizing, intersectional, Black feminist approach to young Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers’ resilience
Growing research documents how systemic anti-Black racism leads to negative physical and mental health outcomes for Black populations, including Black mothers. There is also increasing attention to the concept of resilience as a way of theorizing how Black persons draw on strategies and resources to avoid, overcome or recover from these experiences. This paper, guided by a decolonial framework, intersectional theories and Black feminist epistemol…
Socially Inclusive Parenting Leaves and Parental Benefit Entitlements
How can parental leave design be more socially inclusive? Should all parents be entitled to parental benefits or only those parents who are eligible based on a particular level of labour market participation? To think through questions of social inclusion in parental leave policy design, particularly issues related to entitlements to benefits, I make three arguments. First, aiming to extend Dobrotić and Blum’s work on entitlements to parental ben…
Decolonising research with black communities
What does Rachel Carson have to do with family sociology and family policies? Ecological imaginaries, relational ontologies, and crossing social imaginaries
In the past decade, multiple compounding crises – ecological, racial injustices, ‘care crises’ and multiple recent crises related to the COVID-19 pandemic – have reinforced the powerful role of critical and social policy researchers to push back against ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, and a post-truth era that denigrates science and evidence-based research. These new realities can pose challenges for social scientists who work within relational…
Introduction to special issue
Father Involvement, Care, and Breadwinning
This paper addresses an enduring puzzle in fathering research: Why are care and breadwinning largely configured as binary oppositions rather than as relational and intra-acting concepts and practices, as is often the case in research on mothering? Guided by Margaret Somers’ historical sociology of concept formation, I conduct a Foucauldian-inspired genealogy of the concept of “father involvement” as a cultural and historical object embedded in sp…
A conversation with Pat Armstrong about Creative Teamwork
Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in Covid-19 Canada
Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred critical and much-needed attention to re-thinking policy approaches to child care and long-term elder care, little focus has been given to its implications for parental leave policies and parental benefits for the care of infants and young children. This article is about reconceptualizing and reconfiguring employment-based parental leave policies in Canada both during and after…
Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality
Purpose This research article explores several questions about assessing the impacts of fathers' parental leave take up and gender equality. We ask: How does the conceptual and contextual specificity of care and equality shape what we focus on, and how, when we study parental leave policies and their impacts? What and how are we measuring? Design/methodology/approach The article is based on a longitudinal qualitative research study on families wi…
Parental Leave and Intra-Regime Differences in a Liberal Country
This paper compares access to parental leave benefits in the four largest Canadian provinces -Québec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia between 2000 and 2016, using quantitative data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey. We show that inequalities in the receipt of benefits mirror and reinforce the structure of income and gender inequalities. We argue that Alberta and Québec represent two regimes of parental benefits. In Alberta the t…
Feminist methodologies and epistemologies.
ver the past 10 years of teaching courses onresearch methods and feminist approaches tomethodologies and epistemologies, a recurringquestion from our students concerns the distinctiveness offeminist approaches to methods, methodologies, and epis-temologies. This key question is posed in different ways: Isthere a specifically feminist method? Are there feministmethodologies and epistemologies, or simply feministapproaches to these? Given diversity…
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
While the importance of being reflexive is acknowledged within social science research, the difficulties, practicalities and methods of doing it are rarely addressed. Thus, the implications of current theoretical and philosophical discussions about reflexivity, epistemology and the construction of knowledge for empirical sociological research practice, specifically the analysis of qualitative data, remain under-developed. Drawing on our doctoral …
Stay-at-Home Fathering
Rooted in two qualitative research studies of stay-at-home fathers (70 Canadian and 21 Belgian) at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this article explores the innovative ways that families seek to create work–family balance in two countries where relevant social policies are still focused on the encouraging of private family-based solutions to balancing paid and unpaid work. At the level of work–family policy, we note that both Canada an…
Estrogen-Filled Worlds
Within the wide body of scholarship on gender work and caring, sub-strands of research have grown tremendously in the past decade, including largely separate studies on fatherhood and embodiment. Drawing on a qualitative research project with Canadian fathers who self-identify as primary caregivers of their children, this article focuses on recovering largely invisible links between theoretical and empirical understandings of fatherhood, caring a…
Dad and Baby in the First Year
This article addresses the question of why there are persistent gender differences in the responsibility for children. It argues that understanding continuing gender divisions of domestic responsibility, particularly in the first year of parenting, requires attending to issues of identity; commitment; embodiment; deeply rooted socialization or habitus; and normative community assumptions around gender, breadwinning, and caring. Rooted in three qu…
From Her Side of the Gossamer Wall(s)
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
This article grapples with the question of ' what can be known?' about research subjects and how we can come to know them. Set against a backdrop of theoretical tensions over the concept of subjectivity in feminist theory, our article makes a three-fold argument. First, we argue that theoretical impasses between critical and constructed subjects can be addressed through the evolving concept of a narrated subject. Second, we suggest that this conc…
Parental Responsibilities
Over the past half-century, enormous changes have occurred in gendered divisions of housework and child care across many countries, with a growing consensus that there is a slow but steady pace of change in gendered divisions of time and tasks but one that is combined with a puzzling persistence of gender differences in parental caregiving responsibilities. Rooted in a 14-year qualitative and ethnographic research program that focuses mainly on b…
Knowledge Once Divided Can Be Hard to Put Together Again
This article critically examines team and collaborative research as an 'academic mode of production'. Our main argument is that while theoretically qualitative social science research is rooted within a postfoundational epistemological paradigm, normative team-based research practices embody foundational principles. Team research relies on a division of labour that creates divisions and hierarchies of knowledge, particularly between researchers w…
You See the Need Perhaps More Clearly Than I Have
Drawing on a qualitative research study conducted in Britain in the early to mid-1990s with heterosexual-couple households with dependent children, the article explores domestic responsibility for children through a discussion of two distinct and related conceptions of domestic responsibility, emotional responsibility and interhousehold responsibility. Rooted in feminist research on domestic and community life, family sociology on gender division…
There's a huge gulf between me as a male carer and women
This paper explores the persistent link between women and domestic responsibility, a link that has been heavily documented and yet much less frequently theorised. Drawing on a qualitative research project with a 'critical case' study sample of couples trying to share housework and childcare in Britain in the early 1990s the paper argues that part of this puzzle linking women and domestic responsibility can be addressed by adopting wider definitio…
Fathering, Feminism(s), Gender, and Sexualities
This article provides a critical overview of selected intersections of feminist theories and gender theories within fathering research and looks at a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a diversity of fathering experiences, including differences of class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and family forms. Although there are many overlaps between feminist theories and gender theories, and most scholars who write about gender are fem…
Gender equality and gender differences in household work and parenting
Is the Stay-At-Home Dad (Sahd) a Feminist Concept? A Genealogical, Relational, and Feminist Critique
Time is not time is not time
Over the past half century, time-use studies have become a leading method for researching unpaid care work, especially in the multidisciplinary field of gender divisions of household work and care and in feminist international studies on counting and accounting for women's unpaid work. Although attention to conceptual and methodological refinements in time-use methods is increasing, more focus on the challenges of conceptualizing and measuring ca…
Care is not a tally sheet
This article addresses two puzzles that are at the heart of the field of gender divisions of domestic labour. How is it that care concepts seldom appear in a field that is focused on unpaid care work? Why does the field focus on divisions rather than on relationships and relationalities ? To address these puzzles, I interrogate some of the conceptual underpinnings in the field’s dominant theories: social exchange and ‘doing gender’. Through a wea…
Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality
Purpose This research article explores several questions about assessing the impacts of fathers' parental leave take up and gender equality. We ask: How does the conceptual and contextual specificity of care and equality shape what we focus on, and how, when we study parental leave policies and their impacts? What and how are we measuring? Design/methodology/approach The article is based on a longitudinal qualitative research study on families wi…
A “Choreography of Becoming”
Cet article souligne l'absence du corps dans les études sur la division sexuelle des responsabilités parentales et soutient qu'on doit y intégrer le concept clé de l' embodiment masculin dans les soins proférés aux enfants. Issue d'une recherche qualitative qui se penche depuis vingt ans sur les mères pourvoyeuses économiques et les pères pourvoyeurs des soins, je cite les penseurs fondateurs de ce concept (Dorothy E. Smith, Merleau‐Ponty, Bourdi…
More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers' participation in unpaid care work
This article explores two policy pathways – parental leave and flexible work –as complementary policy interventions aimed at promoting gender equality in unpaid care and household work. Drawing on Canadian data from the 2021 International Familydemic Survey, we examine the relationship between fathers' previous use of parental leave, and current use of flexible work arrangements (flextime and remote work), and their involvement in unpaid care wor…
Introduction to special issue
Father Involvement, Care, and Breadwinning
This paper addresses an enduring puzzle in fathering research: Why are care and breadwinning largely configured as binary oppositions rather than as relational and intra-acting concepts and practices, as is often the case in research on mothering? Guided by Margaret Somers’ historical sociology of concept formation, I conduct a Foucauldian-inspired genealogy of the concept of “father involvement” as a cultural and historical object embedded in sp…
Gender Equality and Gender Differences
Drawing on a four-year research project on Canadian primary caregiving fathers, as well two recent projects on the first year of parenting, this article highlights several theoretical and substantive issues in the study of gender equality and gender differences in parenting. First, I call for shifts from a focus on domestic tasks toward domestic and community-based responsibilities. Second, I argue that the political terrain underpinning the stud…
Fathering across Diversity and Adversity
FRANK F. FURSTENBERG the past few decades, scholarship and policy interest in fatherhood, as an institutional position with associated public meanings, and fathering, as sets of activities and emotions, has burgeoned. In research terms, it has taken a trajectory from being relatively ignored in the 1970s and 1980s, through being a hot in the 1990s, and then emerging as a relatively established subspecialty of several disciplinary fields in the ea…
Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in Covid-19 Canada
Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred critical and much-needed attention to re-thinking policy approaches to child care and long-term elder care, little focus has been given to its implications for parental leave policies and parental benefits for the care of infants and young children. This article is about reconceptualizing and reconfiguring employment-based parental leave policies in Canada both during and after…
Casting Our Lot with Some Ways of Life and Not Others”
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to research on work and care. This article details how we reconfigured the Household Portrait - a qualitative, participatory, visual, creative method that engages couples in mapping and discussing their household and care tasks and responsibilities - int…
Gender equality and gender differences in household work and parenting
Gender equality and gender differences in household work and parenting
Reflections on a Voice-centred Relational Method
There's a huge gulf between me as a male carer and women
This paper explores the persistent link between women and domestic responsibility, a link that has been heavily documented and yet much less frequently theorised. Drawing on a qualitative research project with a 'critical case' study sample of couples trying to share housework and childcare in Britain in the early 1990s the paper argues that part of this puzzle linking women and domestic responsibility can be addressed by adopting wider definitio…
You See the Need Perhaps More Clearly Than I Have
Drawing on a qualitative research study conducted in Britain in the early to mid-1990s with heterosexual-couple households with dependent children, the article explores domestic responsibility for children through a discussion of two distinct and related conceptions of domestic responsibility, emotional responsibility and interhousehold responsibility. Rooted in feminist research on domestic and community life, family sociology on gender division…
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
While the importance of being reflexive is acknowledged within social science research, the difficulties, practicalities and methods of doing it are rarely addressed. Thus, the implications of current theoretical and philosophical discussions about reflexivity, epistemology and the construction of knowledge for empirical sociological research practice, specifically the analysis of qualitative data, remain under-developed. Drawing on our doctoral …
"It's Almost Like I Have a Job, but I Don't Get Paid"
fathers in Canada, this paper explores the ways that work and family interact for fathers who “trade cash for care. ” While fathers are at home, they also remain connected to traditionally masculine sources of identity such as paid work and they take on unpaid masculine self-provisioning work at home and community work that builds on traditional male interests. They thus carve out complex sets of relations between home, paid and unpaid work, comm…
Estrogen-Filled Worlds
Within the wide body of scholarship on gender work and caring, sub-strands of research have grown tremendously in the past decade, including largely separate studies on fatherhood and embodiment. Drawing on a qualitative research project with Canadian fathers who self-identify as primary caregivers of their children, this article focuses on recovering largely invisible links between theoretical and empirical understandings of fatherhood, caring a…
Feminist Methodologies and Epistemology
Stay-at-Home Fathering
Rooted in two qualitative research studies of stay-at-home fathers (70 Canadian and 21 Belgian) at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this article explores the innovative ways that families seek to create work–family balance in two countries where relevant social policies are still focused on the encouraging of private family-based solutions to balancing paid and unpaid work. At the level of work–family policy, we note that both Canada an…
From Her Side of the Gossamer Wall(s)
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
This article grapples with the question of ' what can be known?' about research subjects and how we can come to know them. Set against a backdrop of theoretical tensions over the concept of subjectivity in feminist theory, our article makes a three-fold argument. First, we argue that theoretical impasses between critical and constructed subjects can be addressed through the evolving concept of a narrated subject. Second, we suggest that this conc…
Knowledge Once Divided Can Be Hard to Put Together Again
This article critically examines team and collaborative research as an 'academic mode of production'. Our main argument is that while theoretically qualitative social science research is rooted within a postfoundational epistemological paradigm, normative team-based research practices embody foundational principles. Team research relies on a division of labour that creates divisions and hierarchies of knowledge, particularly between researchers w…
Gender Equality and Gender Differences
Drawing on a four-year research project on Canadian primary caregiving fathers, as well two recent projects on the first year of parenting, this article highlights several theoretical and substantive issues in the study of gender equality and gender differences in parenting. First, I call for shifts from a focus on domestic tasks toward domestic and community-based responsibilities. Second, I argue that the political terrain underpinning the stud…
Dad and Baby in the First Year
This article addresses the question of why there are persistent gender differences in the responsibility for children. It argues that understanding continuing gender divisions of domestic responsibility, particularly in the first year of parenting, requires attending to issues of identity; commitment; embodiment; deeply rooted socialization or habitus; and normative community assumptions around gender, breadwinning, and caring. Rooted in three qu…
Fathering across Diversity and Adversity
FRANK F. FURSTENBERG the past few decades, scholarship and policy interest in fatherhood, as an institutional position with associated public meanings, and fathering, as sets of activities and emotions, has burgeoned. In research terms, it has taken a trajectory from being relatively ignored in the 1970s and 1980s, through being a hot in the 1990s, and then emerging as a relatively established subspecialty of several disciplinary fields in the ea…
"Without Taking Away Her Leave"
Over the last decade, Canadian fathers’ use of paid parental leave benefits rose dramatically. Yet very little is known about when and why these fathers take leave, and how couples negotiate who takes leave, when, and for how long. This article reports on a qualitative study in households where fathers took leave, carried out in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, which are governed by two distinct policy regimes. Drawing on interviews with 26 c…
A “Choreography of Becoming”
Cet article souligne l'absence du corps dans les études sur la division sexuelle des responsabilités parentales et soutient qu'on doit y intégrer le concept clé de l' embodiment masculin dans les soins proférés aux enfants. Issue d'une recherche qualitative qui se penche depuis vingt ans sur les mères pourvoyeuses économiques et les pères pourvoyeurs des soins, je cite les penseurs fondateurs de ce concept (Dorothy E. Smith, Merleau‐Ponty, Bourdi…
Fathering, Feminism(s), Gender, and Sexualities
This article provides a critical overview of selected intersections of feminist theories and gender theories within fathering research and looks at a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a diversity of fathering experiences, including differences of class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and family forms. Although there are many overlaps between feminist theories and gender theories, and most scholars who write about gender are fem…
Ontological narrativity and the performativity of the Stories We Tell Stories We Tell
Stories We Tell, an autobiographical documentary written and directed by Canadian actress and Academy Award-nominated director Sarah Polley, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, garnered rave rev
Introduction
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologieVolume 52, Issue 2 p. 201-203 ARTICLE Introduction: Critical Feminist Sociologies of Families, Work, and Care Kate Bezanson, Corresponding Author Kate Bezanson Brock UniversityKate Bezanson, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 2W6. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorAndrea Doucet, Andrea Doucet Br…
Parental Responsibilities
Over the past half-century, enormous changes have occurred in gendered divisions of housework and child care across many countries, with a growing consensus that there is a slow but steady pace of change in gendered divisions of time and tasks but one that is combined with a puzzling persistence of gender differences in parental caregiving responsibilities. Rooted in a 14-year qualitative and ethnographic research program that focuses mainly on b…
Is the Stay-At-Home Dad (Sahd) a Feminist Concept? A Genealogical, Relational, and Feminist Critique
Committing Sociology
Shorelines, Seashells, and Seeds
Sociology (44 obras) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (29 obras) · Gender Studies (21 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Social science (16 obras) · Epistemology (13 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (13 obras) · Law (13 obras)