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Regendering care or undoing gendered binaries of parenting in contemporary UK society? (2017)
Journal Article
Locke, A. (2017). Regendering care or undoing gendered binaries of parenting in contemporary UK society?. Dialogues in Human Geography, 7(1), 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617691597

Boyer, Dermott, James and MacLeavy discuss the rise of fathers in primary caregiving positions within the United Kingdom following the recessions from 2008 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012 and outline a number of key questions. In this commentary, I consider... Read More about Regendering care or undoing gendered binaries of parenting in contemporary UK society?.

Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood (2016)
Journal Article
Locke, A., & Yarwood, G. (2017). Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood. Community, Work and Family, 20(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2016.1252722

This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the... Read More about Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood.

'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2016). 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology, 26(2), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353516639615

Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role c... Read More about 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK.

Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father (2016)
Book Chapter
Locke, A. (2016). Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father. In Pops in Pop Culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57767-2_11

On February 17, 2009, the then leader of one of the opposition parties in the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, was quoted as saying that the recession—the “mancession” as it has been called in some quarters—and the resulting large-scale unemployment, gave... Read More about Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father.

Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press (2014)
Journal Article
Locke, A. (2015). Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press. Women's Studies International Forum, 53, 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.10.018

In this age of ‘intensive motherhood’, new mothers are flooded with information on the best ways in which to raise their children. One of the key issues is infant feeding, in particular, the timing and method of weaning their children onto solid food... Read More about Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press.

“Risky Business”: Constructing the “choice” to “delay” motherhood in the British press (2012)
Journal Article
Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2013). “Risky Business”: Constructing the “choice” to “delay” motherhood in the British press. Feminist Media Studies, 13(1), 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2012.678073

Over the last few decades the number of women becoming pregnant later on in life has markedly increased. Medical experts have raised concerns about the increase in the number of women having babies later, owing to evidence that suggests that advancin... Read More about “Risky Business”: Constructing the “choice” to “delay” motherhood in the British press.