Understanding Families. A Global Introduction.

McKie, L. and Callan, S. London: Sage (2011)

Understanding Families provides a comprehensive introduction to social aspects and analysis of families. The content examines what we understand by families and relationships, how families might be explained through a number of key social theories, researching families, the politics and policies that impact upon families, relationships and sexualities, families and work, and issues for the future for families.

Interdependency and Care Over the Lifecourse

Bowlby, S., McKie, L., Gregory, S. and MacPherson, I. Routledge (2010)

In this book we consider how informal care and care relationships are critical to individual and social well-being. Put simply, care combines psychological and physical forms of concern, anxiety and labour. It is within the context of care relationships that ongoing and mutual dependency is most evident but, often, least visible. At different points in our lives we receive or offer care and experience inter-dependencies. Over 7 chapters we consider themes such as living with care, learning to care, working and caring and the implications for future research, policy and practice. A number of devices are used to bring issues to life, including geographical zones, people scenarios and storytelling.

Families, Violence and Social Change

McKie, L. Buckingham: Open University Press (2005)

Reprinted in 2011 by McGraw-Hill Tata, India

Part of the Issues in Society Series - Series Editor: Tim May

An exciting new addition to the series, this book tackles assumptions surrounding the family as a changing institution and supposed haven from the public sphere of life. It considers families and social change in terms of concepts of power, inequality, gender, generations, sexuality and ethnicity. Some commentators suggest the family is threatened by increasing economic and social uncertainties and an enhanced focus upon the individual. This book provides a resume of these debates, as well as a critical review of the theories of family and social change.

Families in Society: Relationships and Boundaries

Co-edited with Sarah Cunningham-Burley. The Policy Press. (2005)

The changing nature of families, their enduring and multi-faceted significance in society, and their value as a focus for the exploration of social change have ensured that families have remained a prominent focus of academic enquiry. Acknowledging the increasing diversity and complexity of families, this innovative book proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding families and other relationships that both challenges and attempts to reconcile traditional and contemporary approaches.

Constructing Gendered Bodies

Co-edited with Kathryn Backett-Milburn. Palgrave. (2001)

Interest in the sociological study of the body has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together theory and research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues in a variety of settings ranging from the workplace and leisure industry to the social regulation of medicine.

Organizing Bodies: Policy, Institutions and Work

Co-edited with Nick Watson. MacMillan. (2000)

Families: The Basic Unit of Societies

McKie, L. and Callan, S. in Craft-Rosenberg, M. and Pehler, S-R. (eds)

Encyclopedia of Family Health, Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage. (2011)

Where is the care? Conceptualising and researching families' responsibilities and work in a survey

McKie, L. and Smith, A, in Jamieson, L., Simpson, R. and Lewis, R. (eds)

Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process, Palgrave Studies in Family & Intimate Life, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (2011)

Qualitative Research in Programme Evaluation

Macpherson, I and McKie, L, in I. Bourgeault et al. (eds)

Sage Handbook on Qualitative Health Research. Sage: London (2010)

Second Chance Learning: A Community-development Approach to Smoking Cessation

Black, M., Bryce, A. and McKie, L., in Barlow, J. (ed)

Substance Misuse. The Implications of Research, Policy and Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. (2010)

Sociological Perspectives on Defining and Accounting for Violence: Towards Gendering the Conflict in Northern Ireland

McKie, L. and Yuill, C., in Bradby, H. and Hundt, G. (eds)

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health. Ashgate. (2010)