All Outputs (2)

Women (not) troubling ‘the family’: Exploring women’s narratives of gendered family practices (2018)
Journal Article
Carter, J. (2019). Women (not) troubling ‘the family’: Exploring women’s narratives of gendered family practices. Journal of Family Issues, 40(16), 2264-2287. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X18809752

This paper is concerned with examining the ways in which young woman make choices about their family lives and in so doing reproduce traditional unequal gender norms and family practices. In a time when it is (supposedly) increasingly easy to live al... Read More about Women (not) troubling ‘the family’: Exploring women’s narratives of gendered family practices.

White weddings and the reproduction of white femininity (2018)
Journal Article
Carter, J. (2018). White weddings and the reproduction of white femininity. Families, Relationships and Societies, 7(3), 515-520. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15384699062912

When my colleague and I entered the wedding show venue in London we were immediately confronted by a salesperson asking if she could see our legs so that she could administer a hair removal treatment. This was somewhat off-putting and neither my coll... Read More about White weddings and the reproduction of white femininity.