Doing Family through Gender, Doing Gender through Family. Exploring Social Inequalities and Cultural Changes in Everyday Parenting. An Introduction

Manuela Naldini; Caterina Satta; Rossella Ghigi

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9081

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Manuela Naldini University of Turin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3433-7598
Manuela Naldini is Associate Professor of Sociology of the Family at University of Turin (Italy). Her fields of interest include family changes, comparative studies of welfare states, gender studies, work–family reconciliation issues, and the transition to parenthood. Among her most recent publications are: Gender and Generational Division in EU Citizenship (2018, edited with T. Knijn, Edward Elgar); "The Sociology of Families," in K.O. Korgen (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Vol. 1 (2017, Cambridge University Press); "Politics of Defamilialization: A Comparison of Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain," in Journal of European Social Policy (2016, with M. Estévez-Abe).
Caterina Satta University of Bologna http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-738X
Caterina Satta is Research fellow at the Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna and is Secretary of the research network Everyday life of the Italian Sociological Association (AIS). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology: Communication and Intercultural Processes (University of Padua) and she works in the field of the sociology of childhood, family and everyday life. Her research focuses on adult-child relations in everyday life, parenting and children’s agency, gender and generation, construction of childhood and adulthood, children's consumer culture, sport and fashion. Among her publications: Bambini e Adulti. La Nuova Sociologia dell’Infanzia, 2012, Carocci (key concepts of the sociology of childhood) and Per Sport e per Amore. Bambini, Genitori e Agonismo, 2016, Il Mulino (on parenting through sport activities). She is currently Principal Investigator of the AlmaIdea Junior Grant 2017 Project "Disegnare e Vestire le Bambine di Seconda Generazione" on second generation girls' aesthetic cultures through clothing-fashion codes.
Rossella Ghigi University of Bologna http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4893-7815

Rossella Ghigi is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Bologna. Her research interests are in gender, family, education, consumption, feminism and human body. In 2009 she founded, with a few colleagues of the Department of Education "Giovanni Maria Bertin," the Centre of Gender Studies and Education of the University of Bologna (CSGE), which now counts thirty members. She is the author of a number of articles, encyclopedic entries and book chapters about the sociology of the body, sociology of the family, culture and the media. Her books are about the culture of cosmetic surgery (Per Piacere. Storia Culturale della Chirurgia Estetica, 2008, Il Mulino); gender in adolescence (Adolescenti e Differenze di Genere, 2012, Carocci, Ed.); gender and the body (Corpo, Genere e Società, 2018, Il Mulino, with R. Sassatelli); abortion and reproductive rights (I Suoi Primi Quarant’Anni. L’Aborto ai Tempi della 194, 2018, Neodemos, Ed.); gender education (Fare la Differenza. L’Educazione di Genere dalla Prima Infanzia all’Età Adulta, 2019, Il Mulino). As far as Sociologica is concerned, she has been the book review editor of the journal from 2008 to 2015 and she is the author of "Comments on Hakim: Gendering Desire. Male Power and Sexual Gap in Feminist and Sexuality Studies," (Sociologica, 3, 2016).

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