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‘25 degrees of separation’ versus the ‘ease of doing it closer to home’: Motivations to offshore surrogacy arrangements amongst Australian citizens
(Edinburgh University Press, 2015-03)At present, onshore commercial surrogacy is illegal in all Australian states and territories. By contrast, offshore commercial surrogacy is legal in all bar one territory and two states. As a result, significant numbers ... -
Anti-Asian sentiment amongst a sample of white Australian men on gaydar
(Springer Verlag, 2013-06)Whilst the homogenizing descriptor 'gay' is often used in a singular sense to refer to 'the gay community,' research has increasingly recognized that individuals within gay communities are as diverse as they are within the ... -
Australian Family Diversity: an Historical Overview 1960-2015
(Flinders University, School of Social and Policy Studies, 2016)Over the past three decades, increasing attention has been paid to the diversification of Australian families, particularly with regard to both modes of family formation and family structure. Researchers have provided ... -
Camouflage: how the visual arts and sociology make sense of the military
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)The military is the core institution of state sanctioned violence in Western liberal democracies. In the last decade or so the role of the military has changed and militarism has become an increasingly conspicuous aspect ... -
Care for Children with Migrant or Refugee Backgrounds in the School Context
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)While teachers are increasingly being asked to provide ‘care’ for students in their classrooms, very little research has explored what care might look like for students with migrant or refugee backgrounds. This paper reports ... -
Constructions of the 'best interests of the child' in New South Wales parliamentary debates on surrogacy
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Exploring trans and gender diverse issues in primary education in South Australia
(Flinders University, 2016)Executive Summary An increasing number of young children identify with a gender that differs from that normatively expected of their natally-assigned sex (e.g. Smith & Matthews, 2015; Telfer, Tollit, & Feldman, 2015). Such ... -
The family and romantic relationships of trans and gender diverse Australians: an exploratory survey
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-01-03)The present paper contributes an Australian focus to the growing body of research on trans and gender diverse people’s family and romantic relationships. A survey designed by the authors was completed by 160 trans or gender ... -
Gay men's experience of surrogacy clinics in India
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Abstract: While growing numbers of Australian gay men are entering into 'offshore' surrogacy arrangements in order to become parents, little empirical research has been conducted with this population. This paper reports ... -
Gay men's narratives of pregnancy in the context of commercial surrogacy
(Demeter Press, 2015)Historically, gay men have primarily become fathers in the context of heterosexual relationships, or for some men through foster care, adoption, or co‐parenting arrangements as sperm donors (Riggs and Due). Since the ... -
Heteronormativity in online information about sex: A South Australian case study
(SAGE Publications, 2013-03)Whilst sex education in Australia has moved beyond a focus solely on abstinence, it is still in many instances shaped by what Silin (1995) refers to as the ‘silences’ that accompany topics considered unspeakable to young ... -
Impact validity: A politics of possibilities
(Wiley, 2014-12-04)This commentary reflects upon the possibilities opened up by the concept of ‘impact validity’. Particular attention is paid to three key issues that appear across the entire issue, namely: 1) the role of understandings of ... -
‘It will be hard because I will have to learn lots of English’: Experiences of education for children newly arrived in Australia
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-01-01)Educational experiences during childhood are critically important for development, but migrant children often experience unique challenges. To ameliorate these, extra training in English language - such as provided by the ... -
Locating the Judge within Sentencing Research
(The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2017-05-22)Research into sentencing is undertaken from a range of theoretical, disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Each approach offers valuable insights, including a conception of the judge, sometimes explicit, often ... -
The manipulation of social, cultural and religious values in socially mediated terrorism
(MDPI, 2018-05-22)This paper presents an analysis of how the Islamic State/Da’esh and Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia manipulate conflicting social, cultural and religious values as part of their socially mediated terrorism. It focusses on three ... -
The relationship between sociology and cognate disciplines: law
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)This paper considers the relationship between sociology and law, as a cognate discipline, through a discussion of social research into legal processes and settings, sometimes referred to as empirical socio-legal research. ... -
Representations of reproductive citizenship and vulnerability in media reports of offshore surrogacy
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-12-09)In his elaboration of the concept of ‘reproductive citizenship’, Turner (2001) suggested something of a homogeneous accumulation of cultural capital to those who make a reproductive contribution to contemporary western s ... -
Reworking the sociology of trust: making a semantic distinction between trust and dependence
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)Trust, as a sociological construct, has become increasingly important in recent times but an agreed definition is yet to be found. A potentially useful way of ‘defining’ trust is by distinguishing it from other semantically ... -
‘They’re all just little bits, aren’t they?’: South Australian lesbian mothers’ experiences of marginalisation in primary schools
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-08-20)Multiple formations of family have always been a part of Australia’s social and historical landscape, yet social norms typically function to marginalise some family forms whilst according to others a privileged status. ... -
Transgender men's self-representations of bearing children post-transition
(Demeter Press, 2013-09)Since reports of Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy appeared in the media in 2008, the visibility of transgender men having children post-transition has increased considerably. Whilst this visibility, it may be argued, has attracted ...