Jane Pulkingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 274015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Pulkingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Pulkingham |
| SIGNATURE | PULKINGHAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using a Resistance Lens to Understand Performative Compliance of Low-Income Lone Mothers
The agency of lone mothers who rely on government income supports is often erased by the discourse of dependency, especially under welfare-to-work eligibility criteria. Here we apply the concept of small acts of micro-resistance in constrained circumstances, augmented by conceptualization of resistance as conscious oppositionality and intentionality to understand the agency of lone-mothers who receive income-assistance (IA) as they make-do and ra…
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J. S. Woodsworth
Explaining Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Inequalities in Postseparation Violence Against Canadian Women: Application of a Structural Violence Approach
Adopting a structural violence approach, we analyzed 2004 Canadian General Social Survey data to examine Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal inequalities in postseparation intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Aboriginal women had 4.12 times higher odds of postseparation IPV than non-Aboriginal women (p < .001). Coercive control and age explained most of this inequality. The final model included Aboriginal status, age, a seven-item coercive contro…
From Parent to Patient: The Medicalization of Lone Motherhood through Welfare Reform
Welfare reform in the United States is associated with "metaphorical medicalization," a process involving increased reliance on monitoring and "technologies of the self," such as life skills counseling focused on the personal problems, habits, and attributes of welfare recipients, rather than on job skills and training or educational needs (Schram 2000, Social Text, 18 [162]: 82 -107). Metaphorical medicalization is also a feature of the dynamics…
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity
Welfare-to-work policies have become a central priority of governments in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and Scandinavia. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews generated as part of a longitudinal qualitative study, we explore how welfare is imbricated in lone mothers’ subjectivity and citizenship. We consider women’s everyday claims-making activities as we interrogate three dimensions of welfare reform in British Columbia, Canada: (i) the em…
Public Policy For Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations of women, while making substantial contributions to current public policy debates in Canada.Focusing on discussions of controversial issues such as sing…
Rethinking Burawoy: Reflections from Canadian Feminist Sociology
As president of the American Sociological Association in 2004, Michael Burawoy initiated a lively discussion about the sociological terrain in the United States and appealed to his colleagues to engage in more 'public sociology' (Burawoy, 2004, 2005a). We applaud Burawoy's efforts to begin the task of contextualizing US sociology and of renewing the challenge to embrace rather than eschew engagement with various publics. In outlining his version …
Expanding the Subject: Violence, Care, and (In)Active Male Citizenship
We explore the implications of an employment-oriented vision of active citizenship for the gendered dimensions of welfare regimes, observing how this vision distracts attention from male violence against women and male neglect of childrearing which precipitate entrance onto welfare for many lone-mothers. We therefore question policy logics which presume that welfare dependency by lone-mothers reflects primarily a deficient work ethic. In place of…
Constructing 'active citizenship: Single Mothers, Welfare, and the Logics of Voluntarism
Across welfare states, rights-based conceptions of citizenship are losing ground to obligation-centred notions. Drawing on in-depth longitudinal interviews with lone mothers receiving income assistance in British Columbia during a period of significant welfare reform, we explore the mothers' practices and narratives of volunteer labour in relation to conceptions of ‘active citizenship’. Volunteer work and the narratives women construct about it e…
Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform (review)
Reviewed by: Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform Jane Pulkingham Sylvia Bashevkin , Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 188 pp. Welfare Hot Buttons is a comparative analysis of welfare reform in the US, Canada and Great Britain circa the 1980s to the present. Sylvia Bashevkin examines the apparent conundrum wherein conservative regimes in place in these jur…
Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform
Remaking the Social Divisions of Welfare: Gender, “Dependency” and UI Reform
It almost seems our present social security system is designed to keep people dependent on it, rather than investing in their integration into the regular world of work
Investigating the Financial Circumstances of Separated and Divorced Parents: Implications for Family Law Reform
The "re-discovery" of poverty among single-parent families headed by women (the majority of whom are divorced) raises a number of questions about the way in which income inequalities and poverty are explained. This paper presents findings of an analysis of the 1990 Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 5: Family and Friends, regarding the financial circumstances of separated and divorced parents. The implications of the findings for income suppor…
Private Troubles, Private Solutions: Poverty Among Divorced Women and the Politics of Support Enforcement and Child Custody Determination
In this paper, recent feminist analyses of the feminization of poverty thesis and proposals for a particular kind of child custody determination—the primary caregiver presumption—will be examined. The question of women's subordination in the context of child custody outcomes is of fundamental importance to the issue of financial support for raising children, and women's economic position in general. Yet the complexity and dialectical nature of th…
Employment Restructuring in the Health Service: Efficiency Initiatives, Working Patterns and Workforce Composition
The evidence which has accumulated regarding the impact of contracting-out and the implementation of measures designed to increase `efficiency' in NHS domestic ancillary services suggests that the circumstances of the jobs concerned have sharply deteriorated. But what are the repercussions of this process, in which employment opportunities have been radically restructured, on the profile of the workforce itself? Have there been any significant ch…
From Public Provision to Privatisation: The Crisis in Welfare Reassessed
Privatisation policies, pursued by a government informed by neoclassical economic theory and intent on 'rolling back the frontiers of the welfare state', have been widely criticised as turning the tide against both the 'welfare state' and 'welfare' more broadly. The policy to privatise public industries and services is, in effect, both an employment and wage policy: the intention is to govern, not simply the general type of service provision but …
Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity
Welfare-to-work policies have become a central priority of governments in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and Scandinavia. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews generated as part of a longitudinal qualitative study, we explore how welfare is imbricated in lone mothers’ subjectivity and citizenship. We consider women’s everyday claims-making activities as we interrogate three dimensions of welfare reform in British Columbia, Canada: (i) the em…
Constructing 'active citizenship: Single Mothers, Welfare, and the Logics of Voluntarism
Across welfare states, rights-based conceptions of citizenship are losing ground to obligation-centred notions. Drawing on in-depth longitudinal interviews with lone mothers receiving income assistance in British Columbia during a period of significant welfare reform, we explore the mothers' practices and narratives of volunteer labour in relation to conceptions of ‘active citizenship’. Volunteer work and the narratives women construct about it e…
Rethinking Burawoy: Reflections from Canadian Feminist Sociology
As president of the American Sociological Association in 2004, Michael Burawoy initiated a lively discussion about the sociological terrain in the United States and appealed to his colleagues to engage in more 'public sociology' (Burawoy, 2004, 2005a). We applaud Burawoy's efforts to begin the task of contextualizing US sociology and of renewing the challenge to embrace rather than eschew engagement with various publics. In outlining his version …
Employment Restructuring in the Health Service: Efficiency Initiatives, Working Patterns and Workforce Composition
The evidence which has accumulated regarding the impact of contracting-out and the implementation of measures designed to increase `efficiency' in NHS domestic ancillary services suggests that the circumstances of the jobs concerned have sharply deteriorated. But what are the repercussions of this process, in which employment opportunities have been radically restructured, on the profile of the workforce itself? Have there been any significant ch…
Remaking the Social Divisions of Welfare: Gender, “Dependency” and UI Reform
It almost seems our present social security system is designed to keep people dependent on it, rather than investing in their integration into the regular world of work
Private Troubles, Private Solutions: Poverty Among Divorced Women and the Politics of Support Enforcement and Child Custody Determination
In this paper, recent feminist analyses of the feminization of poverty thesis and proposals for a particular kind of child custody determination—the primary caregiver presumption—will be examined. The question of women's subordination in the context of child custody outcomes is of fundamental importance to the issue of financial support for raising children, and women's economic position in general. Yet the complexity and dialectical nature of th…
From Public Provision to Privatisation: The Crisis in Welfare Reassessed
Privatisation policies, pursued by a government informed by neoclassical economic theory and intent on 'rolling back the frontiers of the welfare state', have been widely criticised as turning the tide against both the 'welfare state' and 'welfare' more broadly. The policy to privatise public industries and services is, in effect, both an employment and wage policy: the intention is to govern, not simply the general type of service provision but …
From Parent to Patient: The Medicalization of Lone Motherhood through Welfare Reform
Welfare reform in the United States is associated with "metaphorical medicalization," a process involving increased reliance on monitoring and "technologies of the self," such as life skills counseling focused on the personal problems, habits, and attributes of welfare recipients, rather than on job skills and training or educational needs (Schram 2000, Social Text, 18 [162]: 82 -107). Metaphorical medicalization is also a feature of the dynamics…
Investigating the Financial Circumstances of Separated and Divorced Parents: Implications for Family Law Reform
The "re-discovery" of poverty among single-parent families headed by women (the majority of whom are divorced) raises a number of questions about the way in which income inequalities and poverty are explained. This paper presents findings of an analysis of the 1990 Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 5: Family and Friends, regarding the financial circumstances of separated and divorced parents. The implications of the findings for income suppor…
Explaining Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Inequalities in Postseparation Violence Against Canadian Women: Application of a Structural Violence Approach
Adopting a structural violence approach, we analyzed 2004 Canadian General Social Survey data to examine Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal inequalities in postseparation intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Aboriginal women had 4.12 times higher odds of postseparation IPV than non-Aboriginal women (p < .001). Coercive control and age explained most of this inequality. The final model included Aboriginal status, age, a seven-item coercive contro…
Expanding the Subject: Violence, Care, and (In)Active Male Citizenship
We explore the implications of an employment-oriented vision of active citizenship for the gendered dimensions of welfare regimes, observing how this vision distracts attention from male violence against women and male neglect of childrearing which precipitate entrance onto welfare for many lone-mothers. We therefore question policy logics which presume that welfare dependency by lone-mothers reflects primarily a deficient work ethic. In place of…
From Public Provision to Privatisation: The Crisis in Welfare Reassessed
Privatisation policies, pursued by a government informed by neoclassical economic theory and intent on 'rolling back the frontiers of the welfare state', have been widely criticised as turning the tide against both the 'welfare state' and 'welfare' more broadly. The policy to privatise public industries and services is, in effect, both an employment and wage policy: the intention is to govern, not simply the general type of service provision but …
Employment Restructuring in the Health Service: Efficiency Initiatives, Working Patterns and Workforce Composition
The evidence which has accumulated regarding the impact of contracting-out and the implementation of measures designed to increase `efficiency' in NHS domestic ancillary services suggests that the circumstances of the jobs concerned have sharply deteriorated. But what are the repercussions of this process, in which employment opportunities have been radically restructured, on the profile of the workforce itself? Have there been any significant ch…
Private Troubles, Private Solutions: Poverty Among Divorced Women and the Politics of Support Enforcement and Child Custody Determination
In this paper, recent feminist analyses of the feminization of poverty thesis and proposals for a particular kind of child custody determination—the primary caregiver presumption—will be examined. The question of women's subordination in the context of child custody outcomes is of fundamental importance to the issue of financial support for raising children, and women's economic position in general. Yet the complexity and dialectical nature of th…
Investigating the Financial Circumstances of Separated and Divorced Parents: Implications for Family Law Reform
The "re-discovery" of poverty among single-parent families headed by women (the majority of whom are divorced) raises a number of questions about the way in which income inequalities and poverty are explained. This paper presents findings of an analysis of the 1990 Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 5: Family and Friends, regarding the financial circumstances of separated and divorced parents. The implications of the findings for income suppor…
Remaking the Social Divisions of Welfare: Gender, “Dependency” and UI Reform
It almost seems our present social security system is designed to keep people dependent on it, rather than investing in their integration into the regular world of work
Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform (review)
Reviewed by: Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform Jane Pulkingham Sylvia Bashevkin , Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 188 pp. Welfare Hot Buttons is a comparative analysis of welfare reform in the US, Canada and Great Britain circa the 1980s to the present. Sylvia Bashevkin examines the apparent conundrum wherein conservative regimes in place in these jur…
Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform
Expanding the Subject: Violence, Care, and (In)Active Male Citizenship
We explore the implications of an employment-oriented vision of active citizenship for the gendered dimensions of welfare regimes, observing how this vision distracts attention from male violence against women and male neglect of childrearing which precipitate entrance onto welfare for many lone-mothers. We therefore question policy logics which presume that welfare dependency by lone-mothers reflects primarily a deficient work ethic. In place of…
Constructing 'active citizenship: Single Mothers, Welfare, and the Logics of Voluntarism
Across welfare states, rights-based conceptions of citizenship are losing ground to obligation-centred notions. Drawing on in-depth longitudinal interviews with lone mothers receiving income assistance in British Columbia during a period of significant welfare reform, we explore the mothers' practices and narratives of volunteer labour in relation to conceptions of ‘active citizenship’. Volunteer work and the narratives women construct about it e…
Public Policy For Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations of women, while making substantial contributions to current public policy debates in Canada.Focusing on discussions of controversial issues such as sing…
Rethinking Burawoy: Reflections from Canadian Feminist Sociology
As president of the American Sociological Association in 2004, Michael Burawoy initiated a lively discussion about the sociological terrain in the United States and appealed to his colleagues to engage in more 'public sociology' (Burawoy, 2004, 2005a). We applaud Burawoy's efforts to begin the task of contextualizing US sociology and of renewing the challenge to embrace rather than eschew engagement with various publics. In outlining his version …
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity
Welfare-to-work policies have become a central priority of governments in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and Scandinavia. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews generated as part of a longitudinal qualitative study, we explore how welfare is imbricated in lone mothers’ subjectivity and citizenship. We consider women’s everyday claims-making activities as we interrogate three dimensions of welfare reform in British Columbia, Canada: (i) the em…
From Parent to Patient: The Medicalization of Lone Motherhood through Welfare Reform
Welfare reform in the United States is associated with "metaphorical medicalization," a process involving increased reliance on monitoring and "technologies of the self," such as life skills counseling focused on the personal problems, habits, and attributes of welfare recipients, rather than on job skills and training or educational needs (Schram 2000, Social Text, 18 [162]: 82 -107). Metaphorical medicalization is also a feature of the dynamics…
Explaining Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Inequalities in Postseparation Violence Against Canadian Women: Application of a Structural Violence Approach
Adopting a structural violence approach, we analyzed 2004 Canadian General Social Survey data to examine Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal inequalities in postseparation intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Aboriginal women had 4.12 times higher odds of postseparation IPV than non-Aboriginal women (p < .001). Coercive control and age explained most of this inequality. The final model included Aboriginal status, age, a seven-item coercive contro…
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J. S. Woodsworth
Using a Resistance Lens to Understand Performative Compliance of Low-Income Lone Mothers
The agency of lone mothers who rely on government income supports is often erased by the discourse of dependency, especially under welfare-to-work eligibility criteria. Here we apply the concept of small acts of micro-resistance in constrained circumstances, augmented by conceptualization of resistance as conscious oppositionality and intentionality to understand the agency of lone-mothers who receive income-assistance (IA) as they make-do and ra…
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