Clare Bartholomaeus
Biographic Data
| ID | 250699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Bartholomaeus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartholomaeus |
| SIGNATURE | BARTHOLOMAEUS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9843-8390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
What about teachers’ cultures? Elevating early childhood teachers’ culture stories through a Kristevan lens
Curricula and policy documents in Australia and elsewhere commonly call for early childhood teachers to nurture cultural belonging for young children and their families. Meanwhile, there remains a critical gap in addressing teachers’ cultural belonging. In this article, the authors consider early childhood teachers’ culture stories and identities, drawing on an exploratory project involving four teachers from early childhood settings in Melbourne…
Belonging, student identity and school activity preferences: Views from Year 4 in the global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne
Students in East Asian locations often obtain high academic results in international high-stakes testing, but lower results on affective aspects of their schooling, such as sense of belonging. These findings indicate the need for more holistic research into children’s lifeworlds, including their experiences of school. In this article, we draw on a survey with 627 Year 4 students in three global cities in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, an…
Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne
First-Time Parenting Journeys: Expectations and Realities
All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm, while providing a critical account of how social norms about parenthood shape, regulate, and potentially delimit experiences of new parenthood for heterosexual couples. Based on qualitative longitudinal research, this book tells the story of journeys to…
Exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds: Video re-enactments with children in three global cities
Purpose This article reflects on the adaption of Sarah Pink's video re-enactment methodology for exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds. Design/methodology/approach Video re-enactments originate in the work of Sarah Pink who developed the methodology to study everyday routines, including activities associated with people's energy consumption at home. This article discusses the adaption of this methodology for exploring 9–10-year-old childr…
Children's Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne
First-Time Parenting Journeys: Expectations and Realities
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: Trans Child Celebrities, Transnormativity, and Childhood 'Innocence
Since the turn of the century, mainstream media representations of trans people have significantly increased, and trans celebrities have been a determining force in this cultural movement. Media interest in trans people’s lives has expanded to encompass trans children, and the trans child celebrity has become a relatively new recruit in the realm of stardom. Nevertheless, little scholarly work has attended to their specificities. Addressing this …
Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Singapore
Trans Students, Mandatory Policy, and the South Australian Context: What Can a Policy Do
This commentary reflects on what it means to have a mandatory policy for supporting trans students in education settings, drawing on the South Australian context. The authors argue that for policy to be productive, it needs to move beyond a document to being implemented in practice
Towards learning dialogues as data: Researching children's lifeworlds in global cities
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues). Design/methodology/approach Learning dialogues were designed to enable children…
Expanding and improving trans affirming care in Australia: Experiences With Healthcare Professionals Among Transgender Young People and Their Parents
Access to medical care is significant for many transgender young people and their families, which involves interactions with healthcare professionals. While a trans affirming model is used across Australian paediatric gender clinics, this does not automatically mean that all transgender young people and their parents experience the care they receive as affirming. This article considers the experiences and views of transgender young people (aged 1…
Transgender and non-binary Australians’ experiences with healthcare professionals in relation to fertility preservation
While transitioning gender historically precluded many transgender people from conceiving (more) children, there is now the option to undertake fertility preservation. However, the uptake of this option to date has been low. In order to extend existing limited research on the topic, this paper draws on responses to a questionnaire survey provided by 409 transgender and non-binary adults in Australia, which explored their experiences related to fe…
Service provider recognition of the significance of animal companionship among trans and cisgender women of diverse sexualities
Extensive literature reveals the many health benefits animal companions can bring to the humans who live with them. However, much of this work has taken place with heterosexual and cisgender populations. To address this gap, we conducted qualitative interviews with 19 trans and cisgender women of diverse sexualities in Australia who reported having significant relationships with animal companions. In this article, we explore the benefits of healt…
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children: Out-of-school activities in three global cities
There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate t…
Love and motherhood in Louis Theroux’s Mothers on the Edge
In our ethnography of a purpose-built mother-baby psychiatric unit (MBU), love was rarely a topic raised by the mothers and staff we spoke with (Kathleen Connellan, Clemence Due, Damien W. Riggs an
Toward Trans Reproductive Justice: A Qualitative Analysis of Views on Fertility Preservation for Australian Transgender and Non‐binary People
This article draws on three Australian studies focused on views about fertility preservation among (1) parents of transgender and non‐binary children, (2) transgender and non‐binary adults, and (3) healthcare professionals working with transgender and non‐binary people. The first two studies were undertaken concurrently given the dearth of research on the topic in the Australian context, and the third study was then undertaken given a primary foc…
That's my job: Accounting for Division of Labour Amongst Heterosexual First Time Parents
Please note: Published version includes a French translation of the Abstract. “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by \nTaylor & Francis in Community, Work & Family on 10 April \n2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ \nfull/10.1080/13668803.2018.1462763” \nThis manuscript version is made available under the CCBY- \nNC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ \nThis author accepted manu…
Formal and informal support and counselling for embryo donation and receipt: An Australian qualitative study
Despite growing numbers of people engaging in embryo donation for the purposes of family building, public access to information about the process may be limited. As such, support and counselling - both formal (i.e. through clinics) and informal (i.e. through online communities) - can play an important role in information provision. This article draws on a sub-sample of nine people from a qualitative study of embryo donation and receipt in Austral…
Transgender young people’s narratives of intimacy and sexual health: Implications for sexuality education
Sexuality education as pedagogy is often fraught by the perceived requirement to balance the informational needs of young people with an investment in notions of childhood ‘innocence’. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in sexuality education that seeks to be inclusive of transgender young people, often resulting in the failure of such education to address the needs of such students. In an attempt at addressing the relative dearth of infor…
Embryo donation and receipt in Australia: Views on the meanings of embryos and kinship relations
Research on embryo donation and receipt continues to grow, highlighting how specific national contexts shape views and experiences. The present article reports on a qualitative study on embryo donation and receipt in Australia. Interviews were conducted with 15 participants: embryo donors and those seeking to donate (6), embryo recipients and those seeking donors (3), people with embryos in storage or previously in storage (5), and egg donors whe…
Cisgenderism and Certitude
In accounting for their experiences of having a transgender child, cisgender parents often make recourse to a trope of loss to account for their journeys. A focus on loss is also evident in guides for parents and academic writing. In this article, the authors seek to produce an alternative account of loss, one that shifts the focus away from transgender children themselves and onto the broader context in which parents and their transgender childr…
Whole-of-school approaches to supporting transgender students, staff, and parents
In our work focusing on transgender people in the context of education we are constantly struck by how quickly discussions about transgender people shift to focus solely on transgender students. In
Intending fathers: Heterosexual men planning for a first child
Having a child is often treated as a taken for granted part of heterosexual relationships, a norm so entrenched that there is often little discussion amongst couples as to why they want children. In terms of research, while women’s reasons for having children have been explored in detail, little attention has been paid to heterosexual men’s reasons for having children. This article presents a thematic analysis of interview data with 10 Australian…
The capacity of South Australian primary school teachers and pre-service teachers to work with trans and gender diverse students
Masculinities at the Margins of 'Middle Adulthood: What a Consideration of Young Age and Old Age Offers Masculinities Theorizing
The intersections of masculinities and age have attracted relatively little theorizing. This article examines the theoretical implications of young/old age and masculinities by bringing together two bodies of literature (young age and masculinities and old age and masculinities) and two research studies (one with pre-teenage school students in Australia and one with grandfathers in the United Kingdom). We focus on two key themes: caring practices…
The capacity of South Australian primary school teachers and pre-service teachers to work with trans and gender diverse students
Whole-of-school approaches to supporting transgender students, staff, and parents
In our work focusing on transgender people in the context of education we are constantly struck by how quickly discussions about transgender people shift to focus solely on transgender students. In
I'm not allowed wrestling stuff: Hegemonic masculinity and primary school boys
Hegemonic masculinity is Connell's key concept in a hierarchical framework of masculinities which has had a significant influence on thinking about gender. This article draws on Connell's theories, previous research and my empirical research to argue that there are limitations to using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, and even hegemonic masculinities, when examining boys and masculinity. Boys are rarely mentioned in definitions and theoretic…
Daughters and their mothers: The reproduction of pronatalist discourses across generations
Colluding With or Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity: Examining Primary School Boys' Plural Gender Practices
Research about masculinities in schools often focuses on hegemonic masculinity. This can have the effect of reinforcing the privilege associated with hegemonic masculinity, as well as overlooking differences amongst boys and the plural practices individual boys engage in. Drawing on empirical research in two South Australian primary schools with students aged 6–7 and 11–13, this article examines the complex ways in which boys engaged in plural ge…
That's my job: Accounting for Division of Labour Amongst Heterosexual First Time Parents
Please note: Published version includes a French translation of the Abstract. “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by \nTaylor & Francis in Community, Work & Family on 10 April \n2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ \nfull/10.1080/13668803.2018.1462763” \nThis manuscript version is made available under the CCBY- \nNC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ \nThis author accepted manu…
Toward Trans Reproductive Justice: A Qualitative Analysis of Views on Fertility Preservation for Australian Transgender and Non‐binary People
This article draws on three Australian studies focused on views about fertility preservation among (1) parents of transgender and non‐binary children, (2) transgender and non‐binary adults, and (3) healthcare professionals working with transgender and non‐binary people. The first two studies were undertaken concurrently given the dearth of research on the topic in the Australian context, and the third study was then undertaken given a primary foc…
Cisgenderism and Certitude
In accounting for their experiences of having a transgender child, cisgender parents often make recourse to a trope of loss to account for their journeys. A focus on loss is also evident in guides for parents and academic writing. In this article, the authors seek to produce an alternative account of loss, one that shifts the focus away from transgender children themselves and onto the broader context in which parents and their transgender childr…
Intending fathers: Heterosexual men planning for a first child
Having a child is often treated as a taken for granted part of heterosexual relationships, a norm so entrenched that there is often little discussion amongst couples as to why they want children. In terms of research, while women’s reasons for having children have been explored in detail, little attention has been paid to heterosexual men’s reasons for having children. This article presents a thematic analysis of interview data with 10 Australian…
Australian mental health professionals’ competencies for working with trans clients: A comparative study
Growing numbers of trans people require access to mental health services; however, previous research suggests that many trans clients have negative experiences with mental health professionals. This paper reports on an Australian survey of 304 counsellors, mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers with regard to their clinical knowledge, comfort and confidence in working with trans clients. The findings suggest that tr…
It’s just what you do”: Australian middle-class heterosexual couples negotiating compulsory parenthood
A distinction is often made between the “choice” of not having children and the claim that having children is “natural”. What disappears in this distinction is the fact that having children is most often a choice. This choice, however, is rendered invisible through the naturalisation of parenthood as a normatively expected aspect of adulthood. Whilst this argument is not new, the topic of how heterosexual couples come to decide to have children h…
Expanding and improving trans affirming care in Australia: Experiences With Healthcare Professionals Among Transgender Young People and Their Parents
Access to medical care is significant for many transgender young people and their families, which involves interactions with healthcare professionals. While a trans affirming model is used across Australian paediatric gender clinics, this does not automatically mean that all transgender young people and their parents experience the care they receive as affirming. This article considers the experiences and views of transgender young people (aged 1…
Developmental discourses as a regime of truth in research with primary school students
While developmental discourses have been heavily critiqued in relation to education systems, less attention has been paid to how these impact the data collection process in classroom research. This article utilises Foucault’s concept of regime of truth to highlight the pervasiveness of developmental discourses when conducting research in primary schools. Such a theoretical framing makes explicit how developmental discourses work and are construct…
Public and private families: A Comparative Thematic Analysis of the Intersections of Social Norms and Scrutiny
Despite the increased diversification of Australian families, the nuclear family formed through reproductive heterosex continues to be treated as the norm. This paper argues that this norm impacts negatively upon families formed in other ways, by exposing them to increased scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with 60 participants from four cohorts (families formed through reproductive heterosex, intercountry adoption, long-term foster care, or surroga…
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: Trans Child Celebrities, Transnormativity, and Childhood 'Innocence
Since the turn of the century, mainstream media representations of trans people have significantly increased, and trans celebrities have been a determining force in this cultural movement. Media interest in trans people’s lives has expanded to encompass trans children, and the trans child celebrity has become a relatively new recruit in the realm of stardom. Nevertheless, little scholarly work has attended to their specificities. Addressing this …
Towards learning dialogues as data: Researching children's lifeworlds in global cities
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues). Design/methodology/approach Learning dialogues were designed to enable children…
Formal and informal support and counselling for embryo donation and receipt: An Australian qualitative study
Despite growing numbers of people engaging in embryo donation for the purposes of family building, public access to information about the process may be limited. As such, support and counselling - both formal (i.e. through clinics) and informal (i.e. through online communities) - can play an important role in information provision. This article draws on a sub-sample of nine people from a qualitative study of embryo donation and receipt in Austral…
Girls can like boy toys’: Junior primary school children's understandings of feminist picture books
Few studies have examined children's understandings of feminist picture books, and thus their potential usefulness for disrupting dominant discourses and providing alternate storylines. This article draws on research conducted in Australia with a class of 6- and 7-year-olds, examining students’ responses to four feminist picture books. The students provided diverse responses to the books, at times reflecting what I viewed as the (feminist) messag…
I'm not allowed wrestling stuff: Hegemonic masculinity and primary school boys
Hegemonic masculinity is Connell's key concept in a hierarchical framework of masculinities which has had a significant influence on thinking about gender. This article draws on Connell's theories, previous research and my empirical research to argue that there are limitations to using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, and even hegemonic masculinities, when examining boys and masculinity. Boys are rarely mentioned in definitions and theoretic…
Colluding With or Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity: Examining Primary School Boys' Plural Gender Practices
Research about masculinities in schools often focuses on hegemonic masculinity. This can have the effect of reinforcing the privilege associated with hegemonic masculinity, as well as overlooking differences amongst boys and the plural practices individual boys engage in. Drawing on empirical research in two South Australian primary schools with students aged 6–7 and 11–13, this article examines the complex ways in which boys engaged in plural ge…
Accounting for Gender in the Sociology of Childhood: Reflections From Research in Australia and Brazil
The (new) sociology of childhood has contributed much to thinking about childhood as a social construction and recognizing the diversity of childhood(s). However, age and generation are often the primary focus of sources in the field. We argue that attention to gender is rare in the sociology of childhood and, when it is mentioned, is under-theorized. Although there is now a growing amount of feminist research with pre-teen children, there is a l…
Girls can like boy toys’: Junior primary school children's understandings of feminist picture books
Few studies have examined children's understandings of feminist picture books, and thus their potential usefulness for disrupting dominant discourses and providing alternate storylines. This article draws on research conducted in Australia with a class of 6- and 7-year-olds, examining students’ responses to four feminist picture books. The students provided diverse responses to the books, at times reflecting what I viewed as the (feminist) messag…
Australian mental health professionals’ competencies for working with trans clients: A comparative study
Growing numbers of trans people require access to mental health services; however, previous research suggests that many trans clients have negative experiences with mental health professionals. This paper reports on an Australian survey of 304 counsellors, mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers with regard to their clinical knowledge, comfort and confidence in working with trans clients. The findings suggest that tr…
It’s just what you do”: Australian middle-class heterosexual couples negotiating compulsory parenthood
A distinction is often made between the “choice” of not having children and the claim that having children is “natural”. What disappears in this distinction is the fact that having children is most often a choice. This choice, however, is rendered invisible through the naturalisation of parenthood as a normatively expected aspect of adulthood. Whilst this argument is not new, the topic of how heterosexual couples come to decide to have children h…
Developmental discourses as a regime of truth in research with primary school students
While developmental discourses have been heavily critiqued in relation to education systems, less attention has been paid to how these impact the data collection process in classroom research. This article utilises Foucault’s concept of regime of truth to highlight the pervasiveness of developmental discourses when conducting research in primary schools. Such a theoretical framing makes explicit how developmental discourses work and are construct…
Public and private families: A Comparative Thematic Analysis of the Intersections of Social Norms and Scrutiny
Despite the increased diversification of Australian families, the nuclear family formed through reproductive heterosex continues to be treated as the norm. This paper argues that this norm impacts negatively upon families formed in other ways, by exposing them to increased scrutiny. Drawing on interviews with 60 participants from four cohorts (families formed through reproductive heterosex, intercountry adoption, long-term foster care, or surroga…
Masculinities at the Margins of 'Middle Adulthood: What a Consideration of Young Age and Old Age Offers Masculinities Theorizing
The intersections of masculinities and age have attracted relatively little theorizing. This article examines the theoretical implications of young/old age and masculinities by bringing together two bodies of literature (young age and masculinities and old age and masculinities) and two research studies (one with pre-teenage school students in Australia and one with grandfathers in the United Kingdom). We focus on two key themes: caring practices…
Whole-of-school approaches to supporting transgender students, staff, and parents
In our work focusing on transgender people in the context of education we are constantly struck by how quickly discussions about transgender people shift to focus solely on transgender students. In
Intending fathers: Heterosexual men planning for a first child
Having a child is often treated as a taken for granted part of heterosexual relationships, a norm so entrenched that there is often little discussion amongst couples as to why they want children. In terms of research, while women’s reasons for having children have been explored in detail, little attention has been paid to heterosexual men’s reasons for having children. This article presents a thematic analysis of interview data with 10 Australian…
The capacity of South Australian primary school teachers and pre-service teachers to work with trans and gender diverse students
Daughters and their mothers: The reproduction of pronatalist discourses across generations
Transgender young people’s narratives of intimacy and sexual health: Implications for sexuality education
Sexuality education as pedagogy is often fraught by the perceived requirement to balance the informational needs of young people with an investment in notions of childhood ‘innocence’. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in sexuality education that seeks to be inclusive of transgender young people, often resulting in the failure of such education to address the needs of such students. In an attempt at addressing the relative dearth of infor…
Embryo donation and receipt in Australia: Views on the meanings of embryos and kinship relations
Research on embryo donation and receipt continues to grow, highlighting how specific national contexts shape views and experiences. The present article reports on a qualitative study on embryo donation and receipt in Australia. Interviews were conducted with 15 participants: embryo donors and those seeking to donate (6), embryo recipients and those seeking donors (3), people with embryos in storage or previously in storage (5), and egg donors whe…
Cisgenderism and Certitude
In accounting for their experiences of having a transgender child, cisgender parents often make recourse to a trope of loss to account for their journeys. A focus on loss is also evident in guides for parents and academic writing. In this article, the authors seek to produce an alternative account of loss, one that shifts the focus away from transgender children themselves and onto the broader context in which parents and their transgender childr…
Formal and informal support and counselling for embryo donation and receipt: An Australian qualitative study
Despite growing numbers of people engaging in embryo donation for the purposes of family building, public access to information about the process may be limited. As such, support and counselling - both formal (i.e. through clinics) and informal (i.e. through online communities) - can play an important role in information provision. This article draws on a sub-sample of nine people from a qualitative study of embryo donation and receipt in Austral…
Transgender and non-binary Australians’ experiences with healthcare professionals in relation to fertility preservation
While transitioning gender historically precluded many transgender people from conceiving (more) children, there is now the option to undertake fertility preservation. However, the uptake of this option to date has been low. In order to extend existing limited research on the topic, this paper draws on responses to a questionnaire survey provided by 409 transgender and non-binary adults in Australia, which explored their experiences related to fe…
Service provider recognition of the significance of animal companionship among trans and cisgender women of diverse sexualities
Extensive literature reveals the many health benefits animal companions can bring to the humans who live with them. However, much of this work has taken place with heterosexual and cisgender populations. To address this gap, we conducted qualitative interviews with 19 trans and cisgender women of diverse sexualities in Australia who reported having significant relationships with animal companions. In this article, we explore the benefits of healt…
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children: Out-of-school activities in three global cities
There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate t…
Love and motherhood in Louis Theroux’s Mothers on the Edge
In our ethnography of a purpose-built mother-baby psychiatric unit (MBU), love was rarely a topic raised by the mothers and staff we spoke with (Kathleen Connellan, Clemence Due, Damien W. Riggs an
Toward Trans Reproductive Justice: A Qualitative Analysis of Views on Fertility Preservation for Australian Transgender and Non‐binary People
This article draws on three Australian studies focused on views about fertility preservation among (1) parents of transgender and non‐binary children, (2) transgender and non‐binary adults, and (3) healthcare professionals working with transgender and non‐binary people. The first two studies were undertaken concurrently given the dearth of research on the topic in the Australian context, and the third study was then undertaken given a primary foc…
That's my job: Accounting for Division of Labour Amongst Heterosexual First Time Parents
Please note: Published version includes a French translation of the Abstract. “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by \nTaylor & Francis in Community, Work & Family on 10 April \n2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ \nfull/10.1080/13668803.2018.1462763” \nThis manuscript version is made available under the CCBY- \nNC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ \nThis author accepted manu…
Towards learning dialogues as data: Researching children's lifeworlds in global cities
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues). Design/methodology/approach Learning dialogues were designed to enable children…
Expanding and improving trans affirming care in Australia: Experiences With Healthcare Professionals Among Transgender Young People and Their Parents
Access to medical care is significant for many transgender young people and their families, which involves interactions with healthcare professionals. While a trans affirming model is used across Australian paediatric gender clinics, this does not automatically mean that all transgender young people and their parents experience the care they receive as affirming. This article considers the experiences and views of transgender young people (aged 1…
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