Sonia Molloy
Biographic Data
| ID | 303400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Molloy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Molloy |
| SIGNATURE | MOLLOY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5074-3433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“A Fairly Egalitarian Relationship”: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Fathers' Perceptions of Fathering in a Global Pandemic
Objective This study examined the language of how fathers of young children perceived and enacted fathering and egalitarian parenting during the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Background Fathering research has increasingly focused on men's involvement in childrearing, yet persistent gendered divisions of labor remain, especially during family transitions. Previous findings suggest that fathers increased their involvement during the global…
Intensive Fathering: A Qualitative Study on Fathers’ Perspectives
Intensive parenting has become a dominant cultural framework shaping expectations of good parenting, yet research has largely centered on mothers. Guided by symbolic interactionism and identity theory, we explored fathers’ meaning-making within intensive parenting standards. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 partnered fathers of preschool-aged children (ages 3–5). Reflexive thematic analysis revealed two central themes. First, fat…
Family Gerontology, Fatherhood, and Masculinity: Enduring Impacts of Fathers and Adult Children
Despite the intertwined nature of aging, fatherhood, and masculinities, research rarely integrates these perspectives to understand fathers' relationships with their adult children. This review brings these disciplines together, encompassing 15 years of scholarship (2009–2023) in family gerontology and examining articles on fathering adult children ( n = 4 articles) and articles that included mothers and fathers to extrapolate the findings for fa…
Doing Parenting: Critical Approaches to the Study of Mothering and Fathering
Parenting researchers have historically theorized mothering and fathering as gendered, with a focus on mothers as primary parents. Increasingly, scholars recognize the need to understand parenting beyond the binary of heteronormative and gendered parenting. To expand upon theoretical approaches that attend to processes, contextual factors, and power relations, this article critically expands on current debates in parenting scholarship calling for…
How can you really step up?”: The dad-double-bind grounded theory of fathering in the United States during Covid-19
The Committee on the Rights of the Child and Article 12: Applying the Lundy model to treaty body recommendations
Article 12 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) requires that states afford children the opportunity, subject to certain qualifications, to express their views on all matters that affect them. Alongside the substantive, procedural and normative significance of this right, Article 12 both reflects and contributes to progressive understandings of childhood more generally; it recognizes children as agentic beings ‘w…
Something Had to Give”: A qualitative study of fathering in the early months of a global pandemic
Features of COVID-19 pressed upon families and enabled and constrained proximal process interactions. • The pandemic presented an opportunity for fathers to engage, transforming fathering processes. • Practitioners can facilitate fathering proximal processes, specifically in times of crisis and transition. Sensitized by ecological theory, this qualitative study explored how COVID-19 shaped fathering processes in the United States for fathers of y…
Angell versus Mahan: Revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I
In 1912 a debate erupted between Alfred Thayer Mahan and Norman Angell. The debate revolved around what motivates states and what constitutes the fundamental bases of human conduct in relation to war, peace and material interests. The article traces the thrusts and counter thrusts of Angell and Mahan as they lay bare the errors and misconceptions of each other in a heated exchange that marked an important stage in the development of Angell's thou…
Handbook of the Psychology of Fatherhood
Hierarchy and status: A response
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations
G. W. F. Hegel is one of the most significant philosophers in history yet the reception afforded to him in International Relations (IR) does not compare with his peers, most notably Immanuel Kant. Although by no means absent from IR he cannot be described as a canonical figure. Given his stature in philosophy this comparatively minor interest in Hegel prompts investigation into his failure to enter the pantheon of ‘Great Thinkers’ in IR. The crit…
Handbook of the Psychology of Fatherhood
Qué Padre! Measuring Latino Fathers' Involvement with Infants
Objective The present study was designed to examine the psychometric properties and correlates of an existing measure of father involvement with infants, The Paternal Involvement with Infants scale (PIWIS), with Latino fathers. Background Fathers' involvement with their infants is associated with positive outcomes for family members. Father involvement is known to vary by child, familial, societal, and cultural factors, emphasizing the need for f…
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared comm…
Doing It All For My Baby: Determinants of Multidimensional Paternal Involvement with Infants
The measurement of paternal involvement as a multidimensional construct has evolved with current societal trends of fathering and corresponding advanced theories. As a result, research must keep pace by continuing to examine predictors of the dynamic ways that fathers are involved with their children, particularly with infants. The current study built upon Belsky's theoretical model of determinants of parenting to posit that paternal involvement …
An examination of emerging adult military men: Masculinity and U.S. military climate
The U.S. military includes more minority military members than ever before. Despite this, several issues stand in the way of the safe inclusion of minority military members. Researchers have noted health concerns for men who adhere to traditionally masculine ideals. In this study, 9 emergent adult U.S. military men were interviewed about their perceptions of masculinity, femininity, military culture, and sexual scripts to gain a deeper understand…
It’s not girly”: Rural service providers’ perceptions of fathering, masculinities, and intersectionality
Realism and reflexivity: Morgenthau, academic freedom and dissent
Primarily known as a pioneer of International Relations (IR) theory, Hans Morgenthau also wrote on a series of other political themes. Especially prominent in his later career is a concern with the right and duty of a theorist to exercise academic freedom as a critic of government power and, especially in this particular case, of US foreign policy. For Morgenthau the responsibility to hold governments to account by reference to the ‘higher laws’ …
Don't be Useful, Just Think – and Network if you Must
Home visitor readiness, job support, and job satisfaction across three home visitation programs: A Retrospective Analysis
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Development and psychometric evaluation of the Paternal Involvement With Infants Scale
Lacan, Deleuze and world politics: Rethinking the ontology of the political subject
In this fascinating study, Andreja Zevnik challenges dominant modes of global politics and their theorization. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the book is Zevnik's use of the Guantánamo Bay detention centre as a prism through which she channels the light of Lacan and Deleuze, thereby illuminating the practices of sovereign power and resistance in a period in which what constitutes law at the domestic and international levels is contested. T…
Pragmatism, Realism and the ethics of crisis and transformation in international relations
This article examines Carr’s work in The Twenty Years’ Crisis and Conditions of Peace in the light of an analogy that Carr draws between his work and that of the American pragmatist philosopher, William James. The article argues that one gains a greater understanding of the internal workings of Carr’s most important IR works if one understands him as operating within the pragmatist tradition (as James understood it). A further aim of the paper is…
Realism reconsidered: New contexts and critiques
Development and psychometric evaluation of the Paternal Involvement With Infants Scale
Truth, Power, Theory: Hans Morgenthau's Formulation of Realism
The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the political realism of Hans J. Morgenthau. The article traces the development of his thought from his earliest writings on social science and politics in English in the 1940s through to his formulation of political realism in the classic text Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace and finally to his reconsideration of this theory in a series of texts that have been neglected by his…
Aristotle, Epicurus, Morgenthau and the Political Ethics of the Lesser Evil
This article explores one of the key themes of Hans J. Morgenthau's moral theory, the concept of the lesser evil. Morgenthau developed this concept by reference to classical political theory, especially the articulation of the lesser evil found in Aristotle and Epicurus. The article begins by differentiating Morgenthau's work from that of E. H. Carr, whom he regards as engaged in a Quixotic quest to provide Machiavellism with greater ethical purp…
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared comm…
Realism: A Problematic Paradigm
This article explores paradigmatic representations of realism that dominate the theoretical assessment of realism, arguing that such representations in fact pervert realism in the name of parsimony and science. The first section examines the colonization of realist theory by theorists committed to the philosophy of science. The emergence of neorealism has had a devastating effect on the realist tradition in International Relations (IR), with earl…
Pragmatism, Realism and the ethics of crisis and transformation in international relations
This article examines Carr’s work in The Twenty Years’ Crisis and Conditions of Peace in the light of an analogy that Carr draws between his work and that of the American pragmatist philosopher, William James. The article argues that one gains a greater understanding of the internal workings of Carr’s most important IR works if one understands him as operating within the pragmatist tradition (as James understood it). A further aim of the paper is…
An examination of emerging adult military men: Masculinity and U.S. military climate
The U.S. military includes more minority military members than ever before. Despite this, several issues stand in the way of the safe inclusion of minority military members. Researchers have noted health concerns for men who adhere to traditionally masculine ideals. In this study, 9 emergent adult U.S. military men were interviewed about their perceptions of masculinity, femininity, military culture, and sexual scripts to gain a deeper understand…
It’s not girly”: Rural service providers’ perceptions of fathering, masculinities, and intersectionality
From The Twenty Years’ Crisis to Theory of International Politics: A rhizomatic reading of realism
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations
G. W. F. Hegel is one of the most significant philosophers in history yet the reception afforded to him in International Relations (IR) does not compare with his peers, most notably Immanuel Kant. Although by no means absent from IR he cannot be described as a canonical figure. Given his stature in philosophy this comparatively minor interest in Hegel prompts investigation into his failure to enter the pantheon of ‘Great Thinkers’ in IR. The crit…
Realism and reflexivity: Morgenthau, academic freedom and dissent
Primarily known as a pioneer of International Relations (IR) theory, Hans Morgenthau also wrote on a series of other political themes. Especially prominent in his later career is a concern with the right and duty of a theorist to exercise academic freedom as a critic of government power and, especially in this particular case, of US foreign policy. For Morgenthau the responsibility to hold governments to account by reference to the ‘higher laws’ …
Home visitor readiness, job support, and job satisfaction across three home visitation programs: A Retrospective Analysis
Dialectics and Transformation: Exploring the International Theory of E. H. Carr
Doing It All For My Baby: Determinants of Multidimensional Paternal Involvement with Infants
The measurement of paternal involvement as a multidimensional construct has evolved with current societal trends of fathering and corresponding advanced theories. As a result, research must keep pace by continuing to examine predictors of the dynamic ways that fathers are involved with their children, particularly with infants. The current study built upon Belsky's theoretical model of determinants of parenting to posit that paternal involvement …
Cautious politics’: Morgenthau and Hume’s critiques of the balance of power
Spinoza, Carr, and the ethics of The Twenty Years' Crisis
This article reads Carr through the lens of Spinoza's ethics, and Spinoza through the prism of Carr's IR Theory. The argument of the piece is that there are significant parallels in the ethical projects of both writers, which upon further examination reveal important aspects of global political life and the nature and limits of ethics in International Relations. The close, critical examination of Spinoza ad Carr undertaken in this article also sh…
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Seán Molloy (bio) But staggering subsets, fellows - you see what this means don't you? Those Indian mystics and Tibetan lamas and so forth were right all along, the world we think we know can be dissected and reassembled into any number of worlds, each as real as 'this' one (Against the Day, 1212). In her discussion of Orwell's 1984, Judith S…
Realism reconsidered: New contexts and critiques
An ‘All-Unifying Church Triumphant’ A Neglected Dimension of Kant's Theory of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to examine the religious and theological elements of Immanuel Kant's work. This is an area of Kant's oeuvre that has been neglected in the history of international thought; this is problematic as it is in these works that Kant addresses many themes which are important to his international-relations project, for example, human nature, the corruption of society, the possibility of ethical community, and cosmopolitanis…
Realism: A Problematic Paradigm
This article explores paradigmatic representations of realism that dominate the theoretical assessment of realism, arguing that such representations in fact pervert realism in the name of parsimony and science. The first section examines the colonization of realist theory by theorists committed to the philosophy of science. The emergence of neorealism has had a devastating effect on the realist tradition in International Relations (IR), with earl…
Dialectics and Transformation: Exploring the International Theory of E. H. Carr
Truth, Power, Theory: Hans Morgenthau's Formulation of Realism
The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the political realism of Hans J. Morgenthau. The article traces the development of his thought from his earliest writings on social science and politics in English in the 1940s through to his formulation of political realism in the classic text Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace and finally to his reconsideration of this theory in a series of texts that have been neglected by his…
The Hidden History of Realism: A Genealogy of Power Politics
Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about a central tradition - Realism - Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorization has distorted Realism, forcing the t
Aristotle, Epicurus, Morgenthau and the Political Ethics of the Lesser Evil
This article explores one of the key themes of Hans J. Morgenthau's moral theory, the concept of the lesser evil. Morgenthau developed this concept by reference to classical political theory, especially the articulation of the lesser evil found in Aristotle and Epicurus. The article begins by differentiating Morgenthau's work from that of E. H. Carr, whom he regards as engaged in a Quixotic quest to provide Machiavellism with greater ethical purp…
Reply to E.H. Carr: Approaches to Understanding Experience and Knowledge by Amelia Heath
From The Twenty Years’ Crisis to Theory of International Politics: A rhizomatic reading of realism
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Seán Molloy (bio) But staggering subsets, fellows - you see what this means don't you? Those Indian mystics and Tibetan lamas and so forth were right all along, the world we think we know can be dissected and reassembled into any number of worlds, each as real as 'this' one (Against the Day, 1212). In her discussion of Orwell's 1984, Judith S…
Realism reconsidered: New contexts and critiques
Cautious politics’: Morgenthau and Hume’s critiques of the balance of power
An ‘All-Unifying Church Triumphant’ A Neglected Dimension of Kant's Theory of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to examine the religious and theological elements of Immanuel Kant's work. This is an area of Kant's oeuvre that has been neglected in the history of international thought; this is problematic as it is in these works that Kant addresses many themes which are important to his international-relations project, for example, human nature, the corruption of society, the possibility of ethical community, and cosmopolitanis…
Spinoza, Carr, and the ethics of The Twenty Years' Crisis
This article reads Carr through the lens of Spinoza's ethics, and Spinoza through the prism of Carr's IR Theory. The argument of the piece is that there are significant parallels in the ethical projects of both writers, which upon further examination reveal important aspects of global political life and the nature and limits of ethics in International Relations. The close, critical examination of Spinoza ad Carr undertaken in this article also sh…
Pragmatism, Realism and the ethics of crisis and transformation in international relations
This article examines Carr’s work in The Twenty Years’ Crisis and Conditions of Peace in the light of an analogy that Carr draws between his work and that of the American pragmatist philosopher, William James. The article argues that one gains a greater understanding of the internal workings of Carr’s most important IR works if one understands him as operating within the pragmatist tradition (as James understood it). A further aim of the paper is…
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Development and psychometric evaluation of the Paternal Involvement With Infants Scale
Lacan, Deleuze and world politics: Rethinking the ontology of the political subject
In this fascinating study, Andreja Zevnik challenges dominant modes of global politics and their theorization. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the book is Zevnik's use of the Guantánamo Bay detention centre as a prism through which she channels the light of Lacan and Deleuze, thereby illuminating the practices of sovereign power and resistance in a period in which what constitutes law at the domestic and international levels is contested. T…
Don't be Useful, Just Think – and Network if you Must
Home visitor readiness, job support, and job satisfaction across three home visitation programs: A Retrospective Analysis
An examination of emerging adult military men: Masculinity and U.S. military climate
The U.S. military includes more minority military members than ever before. Despite this, several issues stand in the way of the safe inclusion of minority military members. Researchers have noted health concerns for men who adhere to traditionally masculine ideals. In this study, 9 emergent adult U.S. military men were interviewed about their perceptions of masculinity, femininity, military culture, and sexual scripts to gain a deeper understand…
It’s not girly”: Rural service providers’ perceptions of fathering, masculinities, and intersectionality
Realism and reflexivity: Morgenthau, academic freedom and dissent
Primarily known as a pioneer of International Relations (IR) theory, Hans Morgenthau also wrote on a series of other political themes. Especially prominent in his later career is a concern with the right and duty of a theorist to exercise academic freedom as a critic of government power and, especially in this particular case, of US foreign policy. For Morgenthau the responsibility to hold governments to account by reference to the ‘higher laws’ …
Qué Padre! Measuring Latino Fathers' Involvement with Infants
Objective The present study was designed to examine the psychometric properties and correlates of an existing measure of father involvement with infants, The Paternal Involvement with Infants scale (PIWIS), with Latino fathers. Background Fathers' involvement with their infants is associated with positive outcomes for family members. Father involvement is known to vary by child, familial, societal, and cultural factors, emphasizing the need for f…
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared comm…
Doing It All For My Baby: Determinants of Multidimensional Paternal Involvement with Infants
The measurement of paternal involvement as a multidimensional construct has evolved with current societal trends of fathering and corresponding advanced theories. As a result, research must keep pace by continuing to examine predictors of the dynamic ways that fathers are involved with their children, particularly with infants. The current study built upon Belsky's theoretical model of determinants of parenting to posit that paternal involvement …
Handbook of the Psychology of Fatherhood
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works)