Publications

Articles in Scholarly Journals (Refereed):

Gazso, Amber and Susan McDaniel. “Families by Choice and the Management of Low Income through Social Supports.” Journal of Family Issues, forthcoming.

McDaniel, Susan, Gazso, Amber and Seonggee Um. “Generationing Relations in Challenging Times: Americans and Canadians in Mid-Life in the Great Recession.” Current Sociology, forthcoming.

Gazso, Amber. 2012. “Moral Codes of Mothering and the Introduction of Welfare-to-Work             in Ontario.” Canadian Review of Sociology 49(1): 26-49.

Gazso, Amber and Susan McDaniel. 2010/2011. “The Great West ‘Experiment’: Neo-liberal Convergence and Transformations in Citizenship in Canada.” Canadian Review of Social Policy 63/64: 15-35.

Gazso, Amber and Susan McDaniel. 2010. “The Risks of Being a Single Mother on Income Support in Canada and the United States.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 30(7/8): 368-386.

Gazso, Amber and Ingrid Waldron. 2009. “Fleshing Out the Racial Undertones of Poverty for Canadian Women and their Families: Re-envisioning a Critical Integrative Approach.”  Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, 34(1): 132-141.

Cooke, Martin and Amber Gazso. 2009. “Taking a Life Course Perspective on Social Assistance Use in Canada: A Different Approach” Canadian Journal of Sociology 34(2), 349-372.

Gazso, Amber. 2009. “Reinvigorating the Debate: Questioning the Assumptions About and Models of the “Family” in Social Assistance Policy.” Women’s Studies International Forum 32 (2): 150-162.

Gazso, Amber. 2009. “Gendering the “Responsible Risk Taker”: Citizenship Relationships with Gender Neutral Social Assistance Policy.” Citizenship Studies 13(1): 45-63.  

Gazso, Amber and Harvey Krahn.  2008. “Out of Step or Leading the Parade? Public Opinion about Income Support Policy in Alberta, 1995 and 2004. ” Journal of Canadian Studies 42(1): 1-25.

Gazso, Amber. 2007. “Staying Afloat on Social Assistance: Parents’ Strategies of Balancing Work and Family.” Socialist Studies 3(2): 31-63.

Gazso, Amber. 2007. “Balancing Expectations for Employability and Family Responsibilities While on Social Assistance: Low Income Mothers’ Experiences in Three Canadian Provinces.” Family Relations 56 (5): 454-466.

Gazso, Amber. 2006. “Creating Social Cohesion? The Paradoxes Posed by B.C. Welfare Reform.” Canadian Review of Social Policy 57: 46-70. 

Haggerty, Kevin, and Amber Gazso. 2006. “The Public Politics of Public Opinion Research on Surveillance and Privacy.” Surveillance & Society 3(2/3): 173-180.

Gazso, Amber. 2005. “The Poverty of Unattached Senior Women and the Canadian Retirement Income System: A Matter of Blame or Contradiction?” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 32(2): 41-61. 

Haggerty, Kevin, and Amber Gazso. 2005. “Seeing Beyond the Ruins:  Surveillance as a Response to Terrorist Threats.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 30(2) 169-187.

Gazso, Amber. 2004. “Women’s Inequality in the Workplace as Framed in News Discourse: Refracting from Gender Ideology.” Canadian Review of Anthropology and Sociology 41(4): 449-473.

Gazso-Windle, Amber and Julie Ann McMullin. 2003. “Doing Domestic Labour:   Strategizing in a Gendered Domain.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 28(3): 341-366.

Book Chapters (Refereed):

Gazso, Amber. “Parenting Young Children: Decisions and Realities.”In Canadian Families Today, 3rd edition, edited by Patrizia Albanese. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Scobie, Olivia and Amber Gazso. ““It was easier to say I didn’t have kids”: Mothering, Incarceration, and Relationships with Social and Criminal Justice Policies.” In Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance.  Toronto: Demeter Press. Forthcoming.

Gazso, Amber and Kevin Haggerty.  2009. “Public Opinion on Surveillance and Privacy in Alberta in the Aftermath of 9/11.” In Between Terrorism and Human Rights, edited by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson. Halifax: Fernwood Press.

Gazso, Amber. 2009. “Mothers’ Maintenance of Families through Market and Family Care

Relations. ” In Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and Sexuality, 5th edition, edited by Nancy Mandell. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall.