Dr JaneMaree Maher
Publications
Edited Books
Chavkin, W & Maher, J. editors. Globalized Motherhood: The transformation and fragmentation of mothering , forthcoming Routledge, 2010.
Kirkman, M, Maher, J., & Souter, K, editors. (2002). The Fertile Imagination: Narratives Of Birth, Fertility, And Loss. Special book issue of Meridian, La Trobe University.
Research Reports
Maher, J., Lindsay, J., Bardoel, A. & Advocat, J. (2008) Flexibility and More? : Nurses working and Caring. PSI/ACREW, Monash University. (16pp.).
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/staff/documents/nurses-report.pdf
Maher, J., Dever, M., Curtin, J., & Singleton, A. (2004). What Women (and Men) Want: Births, Policies and Choices Monash University. (50pp.).
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/research/projects/families-fertility-future.phpMaher, J. (2001) PSI in Partnership: Building Philanthropic Links Report, School of Political and Social Inquiry. (12pmp.)
Sole Authored Refereed Articles
Maher, J. (forthcoming) ‘Accumulated time, accumulating value: mothers beyond the conflicting temporalities of caring and work’, Time & Society (6000 words).
Maher, J. (2008) ‘Forming Australian Families: Gender ideologies and policy settings’, Social Policy Review 20: 263-278.
Maher, J. (2008) Progressing through labour and delivery: birth time and women’s experiences, Women’s Studies International Forum 31(2): 129-137.
Maher, J. (2008) ‘Travelling Time to the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf and Melanie Klein’, Outskirts, 18,
http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume18/maherMaher, J. (2008) ‘A Pregnant Man in the Movies: The Visual Politics of Reproduction’, Continuum, 22(2): 279 – 288.
Maher, J. (2008) ‘The Fertile Fields of Policy? Examining Fertility Decision-Making and Policy Settings’, Social Policy and Society 7(2): 159-172.
Maher, J. (2006) ‘Prone to Pregnancy: Orlando, Virginia Woolf and Sally Potter represent the gestating body’, Journal of Medical Humanities, 28(1): 19-30.
Maher, J. (2006) ‘A Researcher on the Wrong Side of the Blanket? : Questions of Illegitimacy in Birth Research’, Resources for Feminist Research/ Documentation sur la recherche féministe 31 (3/4): 87-102.
Maher, J.(2005) Review Essay: ‘Criminal Justice in Social Contexts’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 38(3): 421-425.
Maher, J. (2005) ‘Undervalued, expensive and difficult: Young women talk about motherhood’, Youth Studies Australia, 24(2): 11-16.
Maher, J. (2005) ‘A mother by trade: Australian women reflecting on mothering as activity, not identity’. Australian Feminist Studies 20 (46): 17-30.
Maher, J. (2004) ‘Skills, Not Attributes: Rethinking Mothering as Work’. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 6 (2):7-16.
Maher, J. (2004) ‘Midwife Interactions with Birth Support People: Who’s supporting whom?’ Midwifery 20 (3): 273-280.
Maher, J. (2003) ‘Rethinking Women’s Birth Experience: Medical frameworks and personal narratives’, Hecate 29(2): 140-152.
Maher, J. (2002) ‘Up In the Stirrups Again: Narratives of Birth and the Transition to Motherhood.’ Meridian 18 (2): 207-226.
Maher, J. (2002) ‘Visibly Pregnant: Towards a Placental Body’, Feminist Review 72:95-107.
Maher, J. (2002) ‘ "We Don't Do Babies": Reproduction in David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers’, Journal of Gender Studies 11 (2): 119-128.
Maher, J. (2001) 'The Productivities of Pregnancy: Reviewing Feminist Critiques and Medical Technologies', Hecate 27 (2): 135-146.
Co-Authored Refereed Articles
Maher, J., Lindsay, J & Bardoel, A (forthcoming) ‘Freeing Time: The ‘family time economies’ of nurses’, accepted Sociology July 2009 (8000 words).
Maher, J., & Mitchell, J., & Brown, K. (forthcoming) ‘Student/Worker/Carer: The intersecting priorities of Arts students’, accepted Australian Universities Review April 2009 (5200 words).
Maher, J., Lindsay, J & Franzway, S (2008) ‘Time, caring labour and social policy: understanding the family time economy in contemporary families’, Work, Employment & Society 22(3): 547-588.
Maher, J. & Chng, H.H. (2008). ‘Gender, space and discourse across borders: Talking gender in cyberspace’, Feminist Teacher 18 (3): 202-215.
Mitchell, J., Maher, J. & Brown, K. (2008) ‘Keeping up and keeping it together: Tertiary arts students managing health, family and self-esteem’, Issues in Educational Research 18 (1) http://www.iier.org.au/iier18/mitchell.html
Maher, J. & Saugeres, L. (2007) ‘To Be or not to Be a Mother?: Women negotiating cultural representations of mothering’, Journal of Sociology 43(1): 5-21.
Maher, J., Lindsay, J., Peel, V, & Twomey, C. (2006) Peer mentoring as academic resource: or ‘my friend says’, Australian Universities Review 48(2): 26-29.
Maher, J. & Souter, K. (2006) ‘“It’s much easier to get help for the baby”: Women, postpartum health and maternal and child health care groups’, Health Sociology Review 15(1): 104-111.
Maher, J., Segrave, M., Pickering, S., & McCulloch, J (2005) ‘Honouring white masculinity: Culture, terror, gender and the law’, Australian Feminist Law Journal 23: 147-164.
Lindsay, J. & Maher, J. (2005) ‘Beyond the “crisis” rhetoric: Designing policy for work and family integration for employed mothers’, Just Policy 38: 21-27.
Maher, J., McCulloch, J & Pickering, S. (2004) ‘[W]here women face the judgement of their sisters’: Review of Helen Garner, Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice 16(2):233-240.
Maher, J. & Dever, M. (2004) ‘What matters to women: Beyond reproductive stereotypes’, People and Place 12(3): 7-12.
Singleton, A. & Maher, J.. (2004) ‘The “New Man” is in the house: Young men, social change and housework’. Journal of Men’s Studies 12(3):227-240.
Maher, J. & Singleton, A. (2003) “I wonder what he’s saying”: Investigating Domestic Discourse in Young Cohabitating Heterosexual Couples’, Gender Issues 23(1): 53-64.
Maher, J. & Souter, K. (2002) ‘Narratives of Support: Midwifery Tales from the Delivery Room’, Nursing Inquiry 9 (1): 37-42.
Chapters in Books
Maher, J. (2008) Maternal Practice versus Motherguilt: Time to look at what mothers actually do’, Marie Porter and Julie Kelso (eds), Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp.201-212.
Maher, J. (2001) ‘The Promiscuous Placenta: Crossing Over’, Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies, Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker (eds). London, Routledge, pp.201-216. (republished in Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax. Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker (eds). Annadale, Pluto Press, pp.201-216, 2002.)