Carla Pascoe Leahy
Biographic Data
| ID | 355531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Pascoe Leahy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla Pascoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Leahy |
| SIGNATURE | LEAHY C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6517-5034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fathering Identities and Men’s Engagement With Flexible Working Arrangements
This research examines how fathering identities and normative gendered expectations shape the way men engage with a broad range of flexible working arrangements (FWAs). Forty-three heterosexual white-collar Australian fathers participated in this qualitative research, involving one-to-one semi structured interviews which were discursively analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Three fathering identities emerged from the data: “The Present…
Knowing your place: The Role of Occupational Status in Fathers' Flexible Working
This study explored how fathers' occupational status shapes their constructions, experiences, and negotiations of Flexible Working. In particular, we examined whether occupational status impacted men's access to, and the acceptability of using FWAs for the purposes of care. Data from semi-structured interviews with 43 working fathers from diverse occupational roles within the Australian financial sector were analysed using Foucauldian discourse a…
Becoming a mother: An Australian history
This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945.
Care and crisis: Disaster experiences of Australian parents since 1974
The historical influence of environmental factors on families has received relatively little scholarly attention. In this article we explore the impact of the 'natural' or 'more-than-human' world on Australian families through one of the most powerful examples of environmental influence: disasters. We take three case studies as our focus: Cyclone Tracy (1974), the 2011 Queensland Floods and the 2019-20 Black Summer Fires. Our primary source mater…
Subjectivities, academic work and mothering practice”: Navigating obscure and unspoken disciplines
A robust and important body of scholarship is exploring the multiple and layered complexities of mothering and paid work. In this paper, we theoretically and empirically contribute to this work by exploring how, at the level of the self, women with children understand themselves in relation to their paid work and their mothering. We have examined this focus using a post‐structural feminist lens inspired by Foucauldian ideas related to the subject…
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: Towards cohabitability
In this article, we explore the emotionally reflexive processes by which some women build maternal futures in the unsettling context of climate change, aiming to contribute to a better understanding of reproductive (and other) future building as aided by emotions. We analyse the online testimonies of an organisation that raises awareness about the interrelationship between climate change and reproductive decision making. The findings illustrate h…
Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
Viewpoint: Visibilising Care in the Academy: (Re)Performing Academic Mothering in the Transformative Moment of Covid‐19
The effects of COVID-19 have been profoundly felt across higher education as across broader society. In particular, the pandemic has revealed that many of our most stubbornly entrenched inequalities do not simply follow gendered fault lines, but rather care fault lines. In this article, we adopt a maternal epistemology and collaborative witnessing to outline the disruption that academic mothers have experienced during the pandemic. However, we ar…
The afterlife of interviews: Explicit Ethics and Subtle Ethics in Sensitive or Distressing Qualitative Research
When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpected distress that can surface in interviews concerning topics laden with personal significance are different to the readily anticipated trauma that accompanies interviews in post-crisis or post-conflict situation. This article analyses the ethical considerations that accompany such research, drawing upon literature from …
Care, Mothering and the Academy: Making the Invisible Visible
Maternal heritage: Remembering Mothering and Motherhood Through Material Culture
New motherhood is mediated through the material world. In this liminal, vulnerable period of matrescence, consumption of and interaction with objects co- constitutes the mother and her child. Material culture is central to motherhood, as mothers negotiate preparation, mastery and memorialisation of their maternal role through objects. While some objects are used once then discarded, other objects are saved for longer periods, either by individual…
The Mother Within: Intergenerational Influences Upon Australian Matrescence Since 1945
Female descendants within biological families are connected on multiple levels.While the female foetus floats in the liquid of her mother's womb, her body silently manufactures the eggs that may one day create her own daughter.In this sense, the granddaughter is formed within the grandmother: she shares her cellular material and has inhabited the same body.In societies where children have a singular maternal figure providing care -such as industr…
Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Public histories and private struggles: The place of Janet McCalman’s Struggletown in Australian historiography
On the 35th anniversary of the publication of Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900–1965, this article explores the reception of the book and its subsequent impact on Australian historiography. In undertaking this project, author Janet McCalman drew upon strands of social history, women’s history, oral history and urban history, and indeed the book has continued to influence the further development of these sub-disciplines. In th…
From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945
100 Feminist Studies 45, no. 1. © 2019 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Carla Pascoe Leahy From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945 Men didn’t do anything. . . . The mother did for the child. The father went out to work. . . . I was a very determined, modern woman, but I didn’t mind being the little wife. —Marjorie, 1950s mother1 There were competing narratives. One was a woman’s place is fu…
Home Is Where Mother Is: Ideals and Realities in Australian Family Houses of the 1950s
Following the austerity of war, Australians in the 1950s were keen to pursue their inter-related ambitions of building families and homes. Architectural design was heavily influenced by modernism and focused particularly on the perceived needs of mothers and children, imagined to be ever-present in the home. Architects recommended modernising and centralising the kitchen so that the mother could efficiently complete chores while supervising her c…
Men's experiences of sexuality after cancer: A material discursive intra-psychic approach
Men can experience significant changes to their sexuality following the onset of cancer. However, research on men's sexuality post-cancer has focused almost exclusively on those with prostate and testicular cancer, despite evidence that the diagnosis and treatment for most cancers can impact on men's sexuality. This Australian qualitative study explores the experiences of changes to sexuality for 21 men across a range of cancer types and stages, …
Accounts of disruptions to sexuality following cancer: The Perspective of Informal Carers Who Are Partners of a Person With Cancer
There is a growing body of research showing that cancer impacts upon the sexuality of informal carers in a couple relationship with a person with cancer. However, this research is primarily focused on partners of a person with gynaecological or breast cancer, within a framework where the physiological effects of cancer on sexual performance are the focus. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 informal carers in a couple relationship wit…
The Art of Governing Smoking: Discourse Analysis of Australian Anti-Smoking Campaigns
Constructing ‘Fashionable’ Youth Identities: Australian Young Women Cigarette Smokers
Cigarette smoking among young people has been the source of much research in Australia and other developed counties during the last 20 years. Most people start smoking during their adolescent years, and the younger an adolescent begins smoking the more likely he or she is to become a regular smoker and the less likely he is she is to quit. Moreover, young women are starting smoking at an earlier age than young men, and are starting smoking at a g…
Performing Femininity: Young Women's Gendered Practice of Cigarette Smoking
Throughout the last 20 years in Australia, young women have started smoking at a higher rate than young men, and they seem less inclined to quit. Moreover, smoking has dire health consequences that are unique to women, and smoking is now seen as a ‘woman's issue’. The research reported in this article explores what cigarette smoking means to young women, to see if smoking forms part of their performative gender identity. Semi-structured in-depth …
Contextualising the medical risks of cigarette smoking: Australian young women’s perceptions of anti-smoking campaigns
This paper presents results from a qualitative analysis of the perceptions Australian young women cigarette smokers have of the medical health messages espoused through anti-smoking campaigns. The study aims to show that the deployment of medico-scientific knowledges in the most recent series of anti-smoking campaigns disseminated in New South Wales Australia (those which emerged in the 1990s under the auspices of the National Tobacco Campaign (N…
The afterlife of interviews: Explicit Ethics and Subtle Ethics in Sensitive or Distressing Qualitative Research
When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpected distress that can surface in interviews concerning topics laden with personal significance are different to the readily anticipated trauma that accompanies interviews in post-crisis or post-conflict situation. This article analyses the ethical considerations that accompany such research, drawing upon literature from …
The Art of Governing Smoking: Discourse Analysis of Australian Anti-Smoking Campaigns
Constructing ‘Fashionable’ Youth Identities: Australian Young Women Cigarette Smokers
Cigarette smoking among young people has been the source of much research in Australia and other developed counties during the last 20 years. Most people start smoking during their adolescent years, and the younger an adolescent begins smoking the more likely he or she is to become a regular smoker and the less likely he is she is to quit. Moreover, young women are starting smoking at an earlier age than young men, and are starting smoking at a g…
Maternal heritage: Remembering Mothering and Motherhood Through Material Culture
New motherhood is mediated through the material world. In this liminal, vulnerable period of matrescence, consumption of and interaction with objects co- constitutes the mother and her child. Material culture is central to motherhood, as mothers negotiate preparation, mastery and memorialisation of their maternal role through objects. While some objects are used once then discarded, other objects are saved for longer periods, either by individual…
Performing Femininity: Young Women's Gendered Practice of Cigarette Smoking
Throughout the last 20 years in Australia, young women have started smoking at a higher rate than young men, and they seem less inclined to quit. Moreover, smoking has dire health consequences that are unique to women, and smoking is now seen as a ‘woman's issue’. The research reported in this article explores what cigarette smoking means to young women, to see if smoking forms part of their performative gender identity. Semi-structured in-depth …
From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945
100 Feminist Studies 45, no. 1. © 2019 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Carla Pascoe Leahy From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945 Men didn’t do anything. . . . The mother did for the child. The father went out to work. . . . I was a very determined, modern woman, but I didn’t mind being the little wife. —Marjorie, 1950s mother1 There were competing narratives. One was a woman’s place is fu…
Knowing your place: The Role of Occupational Status in Fathers' Flexible Working
This study explored how fathers' occupational status shapes their constructions, experiences, and negotiations of Flexible Working. In particular, we examined whether occupational status impacted men's access to, and the acceptability of using FWAs for the purposes of care. Data from semi-structured interviews with 43 working fathers from diverse occupational roles within the Australian financial sector were analysed using Foucauldian discourse a…
Accounts of disruptions to sexuality following cancer: The Perspective of Informal Carers Who Are Partners of a Person With Cancer
There is a growing body of research showing that cancer impacts upon the sexuality of informal carers in a couple relationship with a person with cancer. However, this research is primarily focused on partners of a person with gynaecological or breast cancer, within a framework where the physiological effects of cancer on sexual performance are the focus. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 informal carers in a couple relationship wit…
Subjectivities, academic work and mothering practice”: Navigating obscure and unspoken disciplines
A robust and important body of scholarship is exploring the multiple and layered complexities of mothering and paid work. In this paper, we theoretically and empirically contribute to this work by exploring how, at the level of the self, women with children understand themselves in relation to their paid work and their mothering. We have examined this focus using a post‐structural feminist lens inspired by Foucauldian ideas related to the subject…
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: Towards cohabitability
In this article, we explore the emotionally reflexive processes by which some women build maternal futures in the unsettling context of climate change, aiming to contribute to a better understanding of reproductive (and other) future building as aided by emotions. We analyse the online testimonies of an organisation that raises awareness about the interrelationship between climate change and reproductive decision making. The findings illustrate h…
Care and crisis: Disaster experiences of Australian parents since 1974
The historical influence of environmental factors on families has received relatively little scholarly attention. In this article we explore the impact of the 'natural' or 'more-than-human' world on Australian families through one of the most powerful examples of environmental influence: disasters. We take three case studies as our focus: Cyclone Tracy (1974), the 2011 Queensland Floods and the 2019-20 Black Summer Fires. Our primary source mater…
Viewpoint: Visibilising Care in the Academy: (Re)Performing Academic Mothering in the Transformative Moment of Covid‐19
The effects of COVID-19 have been profoundly felt across higher education as across broader society. In particular, the pandemic has revealed that many of our most stubbornly entrenched inequalities do not simply follow gendered fault lines, but rather care fault lines. In this article, we adopt a maternal epistemology and collaborative witnessing to outline the disruption that academic mothers have experienced during the pandemic. However, we ar…
Contextualising the medical risks of cigarette smoking: Australian young women’s perceptions of anti-smoking campaigns
This paper presents results from a qualitative analysis of the perceptions Australian young women cigarette smokers have of the medical health messages espoused through anti-smoking campaigns. The study aims to show that the deployment of medico-scientific knowledges in the most recent series of anti-smoking campaigns disseminated in New South Wales Australia (those which emerged in the 1990s under the auspices of the National Tobacco Campaign (N…
Constructing ‘Fashionable’ Youth Identities: Australian Young Women Cigarette Smokers
Cigarette smoking among young people has been the source of much research in Australia and other developed counties during the last 20 years. Most people start smoking during their adolescent years, and the younger an adolescent begins smoking the more likely he or she is to become a regular smoker and the less likely he is she is to quit. Moreover, young women are starting smoking at an earlier age than young men, and are starting smoking at a g…
Performing Femininity: Young Women's Gendered Practice of Cigarette Smoking
Throughout the last 20 years in Australia, young women have started smoking at a higher rate than young men, and they seem less inclined to quit. Moreover, smoking has dire health consequences that are unique to women, and smoking is now seen as a ‘woman's issue’. The research reported in this article explores what cigarette smoking means to young women, to see if smoking forms part of their performative gender identity. Semi-structured in-depth …
The Art of Governing Smoking: Discourse Analysis of Australian Anti-Smoking Campaigns
Accounts of disruptions to sexuality following cancer: The Perspective of Informal Carers Who Are Partners of a Person With Cancer
There is a growing body of research showing that cancer impacts upon the sexuality of informal carers in a couple relationship with a person with cancer. However, this research is primarily focused on partners of a person with gynaecological or breast cancer, within a framework where the physiological effects of cancer on sexual performance are the focus. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 informal carers in a couple relationship wit…
Men's experiences of sexuality after cancer: A material discursive intra-psychic approach
Men can experience significant changes to their sexuality following the onset of cancer. However, research on men's sexuality post-cancer has focused almost exclusively on those with prostate and testicular cancer, despite evidence that the diagnosis and treatment for most cancers can impact on men's sexuality. This Australian qualitative study explores the experiences of changes to sexuality for 21 men across a range of cancer types and stages, …
Home Is Where Mother Is: Ideals and Realities in Australian Family Houses of the 1950s
Following the austerity of war, Australians in the 1950s were keen to pursue their inter-related ambitions of building families and homes. Architectural design was heavily influenced by modernism and focused particularly on the perceived needs of mothers and children, imagined to be ever-present in the home. Architects recommended modernising and centralising the kitchen so that the mother could efficiently complete chores while supervising her c…
Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Public histories and private struggles: The place of Janet McCalman’s Struggletown in Australian historiography
On the 35th anniversary of the publication of Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900–1965, this article explores the reception of the book and its subsequent impact on Australian historiography. In undertaking this project, author Janet McCalman drew upon strands of social history, women’s history, oral history and urban history, and indeed the book has continued to influence the further development of these sub-disciplines. In th…
From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945
100 Feminist Studies 45, no. 1. © 2019 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Carla Pascoe Leahy From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and Mothering in Australia since 1945 Men didn’t do anything. . . . The mother did for the child. The father went out to work. . . . I was a very determined, modern woman, but I didn’t mind being the little wife. —Marjorie, 1950s mother1 There were competing narratives. One was a woman’s place is fu…
The Mother Within: Intergenerational Influences Upon Australian Matrescence Since 1945
Female descendants within biological families are connected on multiple levels.While the female foetus floats in the liquid of her mother's womb, her body silently manufactures the eggs that may one day create her own daughter.In this sense, the granddaughter is formed within the grandmother: she shares her cellular material and has inhabited the same body.In societies where children have a singular maternal figure providing care -such as industr…
Care, Mothering and the Academy: Making the Invisible Visible
Maternal heritage: Remembering Mothering and Motherhood Through Material Culture
New motherhood is mediated through the material world. In this liminal, vulnerable period of matrescence, consumption of and interaction with objects co- constitutes the mother and her child. Material culture is central to motherhood, as mothers negotiate preparation, mastery and memorialisation of their maternal role through objects. While some objects are used once then discarded, other objects are saved for longer periods, either by individual…
Unsettling maternal futures in climate crisis: Towards cohabitability
In this article, we explore the emotionally reflexive processes by which some women build maternal futures in the unsettling context of climate change, aiming to contribute to a better understanding of reproductive (and other) future building as aided by emotions. We analyse the online testimonies of an organisation that raises awareness about the interrelationship between climate change and reproductive decision making. The findings illustrate h…
Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
Viewpoint: Visibilising Care in the Academy: (Re)Performing Academic Mothering in the Transformative Moment of Covid‐19
The effects of COVID-19 have been profoundly felt across higher education as across broader society. In particular, the pandemic has revealed that many of our most stubbornly entrenched inequalities do not simply follow gendered fault lines, but rather care fault lines. In this article, we adopt a maternal epistemology and collaborative witnessing to outline the disruption that academic mothers have experienced during the pandemic. However, we ar…
The afterlife of interviews: Explicit Ethics and Subtle Ethics in Sensitive or Distressing Qualitative Research
When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpected distress that can surface in interviews concerning topics laden with personal significance are different to the readily anticipated trauma that accompanies interviews in post-crisis or post-conflict situation. This article analyses the ethical considerations that accompany such research, drawing upon literature from …
Becoming a mother: An Australian history
This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945.
Care and crisis: Disaster experiences of Australian parents since 1974
The historical influence of environmental factors on families has received relatively little scholarly attention. In this article we explore the impact of the 'natural' or 'more-than-human' world on Australian families through one of the most powerful examples of environmental influence: disasters. We take three case studies as our focus: Cyclone Tracy (1974), the 2011 Queensland Floods and the 2019-20 Black Summer Fires. Our primary source mater…
Subjectivities, academic work and mothering practice”: Navigating obscure and unspoken disciplines
A robust and important body of scholarship is exploring the multiple and layered complexities of mothering and paid work. In this paper, we theoretically and empirically contribute to this work by exploring how, at the level of the self, women with children understand themselves in relation to their paid work and their mothering. We have examined this focus using a post‐structural feminist lens inspired by Foucauldian ideas related to the subject…
Fathering Identities and Men’s Engagement With Flexible Working Arrangements
This research examines how fathering identities and normative gendered expectations shape the way men engage with a broad range of flexible working arrangements (FWAs). Forty-three heterosexual white-collar Australian fathers participated in this qualitative research, involving one-to-one semi structured interviews which were discursively analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Three fathering identities emerged from the data: “The Present…
Knowing your place: The Role of Occupational Status in Fathers' Flexible Working
This study explored how fathers' occupational status shapes their constructions, experiences, and negotiations of Flexible Working. In particular, we examined whether occupational status impacted men's access to, and the acceptability of using FWAs for the purposes of care. Data from semi-structured interviews with 43 working fathers from diverse occupational roles within the Australian financial sector were analysed using Foucauldian discourse a…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (6 works)