Studying work, motherhood and women's well-being: A few notes about the construction of knowledge

References

• Amaro , H. , Fried , L. , Cabral , H. and Zuckerman , B. 1990 . Violence during pregnancy and substance abuse . American Journal of Public Health , 80 : 575 – 579 . Bachelard, G. (1965) La formation de I'esprit scientifique, contribution a une psychanalyse de la connaissance objective. Vrin, Paris. Bartley, M., Popay, J., and Plewis, I. (1992) Domestic conditions, paid employment and women's experience of ill-health. Sociology of Health and Illness, 14, 313–343. Berkowitz, G. (1981) An epidemiologic study of preterm delivery. American Journalof'Epidemiology, 113, 81–92. Blondel, B., and Reid, M. (1996) Environnement social et sante des femmes. Saurel-Cubi- zolles, M. J., and Blondel, B., La sante des femmes, pp. 307–325. Flammarion, Paris. Bourdieu, P., Chamboredon, J. C., and Passeron, J. C. (1968) Le metier de sociologue. Mouton, Paris
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brannen , J. and Moss , P. 1991 . Managing Mothers. Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave , London : Unwyn Hyman .
   Google Scholar
• Chavkin , W. 1984 . Double Exposure. Women's Health Hazards on the Job and at Home , New York : Monthly Review Press .
   Google Scholar
• Clarke-Stewart , A. 1989 . Infant day care. Maligned or malignant? . American Psychologist , : 266 – 273 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Clarke-Stewart , A. 1991 . Does day-care affect development? . Journal ofReproductive and Infant Psychology , 9 : 67 – 78 .
   Google Scholar
• Cresson , G. 1995 . Le travail domestique de sante , Paris : L'Harmattan .
   Google Scholar
• Doyal , L. 1995 . What Makes Women Sick. Gender and the Political Economy of Health , London : Mac-millan .
   Google Scholar
• Duncombe , J. and Marsden , D. 1993 . Love and intimacy: the gender division of emotion and emotion work . Sociology , 27 : 221 – 242 .
   Google Scholar
• Dye , T. , Tolliver , N. , Lee , R. and Kenney , C. 1995 . Violence, pregnancy and birth outcome in Appalachia . Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology , 9 : 35 – 47 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eurostat . 1991 . Portrait social de VEurope , Office Statistique des Communautes Europeennes . Eurostat (1995) La population de l'Union Europeenne au 1” Janvier 1995. Statistiques en bref. Population et Conditions Sociales, n. 8
   Google Scholar
• Finch , J. and Groves , D. , eds. 1983 . A Labour of Love , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
   Google Scholar
• Hennessy , E. and Melhuish , E. 1991 . Early day-care and the development of school-age children: a review . Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology , 9 : 117 – 136 .
   Google Scholar
• Hock , E. 1987 . Working and non-working mothers with infants: perception of their career, their infants needs and satisfaction with mothering . Developmental Psychology , 14 : 37 – 43 .
   Google Scholar
• Lennon , M. C. , Wasserman , G. and Allen , R. 1991 . Infant care and wives depressive symptoms . Women and Health , 17 : 1 – 23 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marx Ferree , M. 1990 . Beyond separate spheres: feminism and family research . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 52 : 866 – 884 .
   Google Scholar
• McRae , S. 1991 . Maternity Rights in Britain , London : Policy Studies Institute .
   Google Scholar
• McRae , S. 1993 . Returning to work after childbirth: opportunities and inequalities . European Sociological Review , 9 : 125 – 137 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Messing , K. 1983 . “ The scientific mystique ” . In Women's Nature: rationalizations of inequality , Edited by: Lowe , M. and Hubbard , R. 75 – 88 . New York : Pergamon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Messing , K. 1991 . La sante et la securite des travailleuses canadiennes , Ottowa, Ontario : Travail Canada . Un document de reference
   Google Scholar
• Messing , K. , Dumais , L. and Romito , R. 1993 . Prostitutes and chimney sweeps both have problems: towards full integration of both sexes in the study of occupational health . Social Science and Medicine , 36 : 47 – 55 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Messing , K. , Neis , B. and Dumais , L. 1995 . “ Introduction ” . In Invisible. Issues in Women's Occupational Health , Edited by: Messing , K. , Neis , B. and Dumais , L. 9 – 15 . Canada : Gynergy Books .
   Google Scholar
• Murphy , J. E. 1984 . Employment in pregnancy: prevalence, maternal characteristics, perinatal outcome . Lancet , ii : 1163 – 1166 .
   Google Scholar
• Oakley , A. 1976 . Housewife , Harmondsworth : Pelican .
   Google Scholar
• Oakley , A. 1985 . Taking it Like a Woman , London : Flamingo .
   Google Scholar
• Omenn , G. S. and Morris , S. L. 1984 . Occupational hazards to health care workers . American Journal of Industrial Medicine , 6 : 129 – 137 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pattison , H. and Gross , H. 1996 . Pregnancy and women's well-being: a review . Work and Stress , 10 : 72 – 87 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pattison , H. and Moyse , K. 1995 . The effects of suitability for current role on the psychological well-being of employed and non-employed mothers . Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology , 13 : 229 – 236 .
   Google Scholar
• Peplau , L. A. and Conrad , E. 1989 . Beyond nonsexist research. The perils of feminist methods in psychology . Psychology of Women Quarterly , 13 : 379 – 400 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pistrang , N. 1984 . Women's work involvement and experience of new motherhood . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 46 : 433 – 447 .
   Google Scholar
• Poerksen , A. and Petitti , D. 1991 . Employment and low birth-weight in black women . Social Science and Medicine , 33 : 1281 – 1286 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Rabkin , C. , Anderson , H. , Bland , M. , Booke , O. , Chamberlain , G. and Peacock , J. 1990 . Maternal activity and birth weigh: a prospective, population-based study . American Journal of Epidemiology , 131 : 522 – 531 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Reinharz , S. 1992 . Feminist Methods in Social Research , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Robmell , S. and Smart , L. 1982 . Pregnant at Work: the experience of women , Milton Keynes : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Romito , P. 1989 . Women's paid and unpaid work and pregnancy outcome: a discussion of some open questions . Health Promotion , 4 : 31 – 41 .
   Google Scholar
• Romito , R. 1993 . The practice of protective legislation for pregnant workers in Italy . Women's Studies International Forum , 16 : 581 – 590 .
   Google Scholar
• Romito , P. 1994 . Work and health in mothers of young children . International Journal of Health Services , 24 : 607 – 628 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Romito , P. . The costs of motherhood in women's lives . Paper presented to the International Conference, ‘The Cost of Children’ . September 26–28 1996 , Bologna, Italy.
   Google Scholar
• Romito , P. and Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. 1992 . Fair law, unfair practices? Benefiting from protective legislation for pregnant workers in Italy and France . Social Science and Medicine , 35 : 1485 – 1495 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Romito , P. and Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. 1996 . Employed mothers and breast-feeding . Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology , 14 : 145 – 156 .
   Google Scholar
• Romito , P. , Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. and Escriba , V. 1996 . Lavorodei genitoriecureall'infanzia . Famiglia Oggi , 1 : 37 – 61 .
   Google Scholar
• Ross , C. and Mirowsky , J. 1988 . Child care and emotional adjustment to wives' employment . Journal of Health and Social Behavior , 29 : 127 – 138 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ross , L. 1977 . “ The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings ” . In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology , Edited by: Berkowitz , L. Vol. 10 , 174 – 211 . New York : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. and Gestin , G. 1991 . Housewives, unemployed and employed women: why different risks of preterm delivery? A French study . Intemation Journal of Health Sciences , 2 : 83 – 91 .
   Google Scholar
• Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. and Kaminski , M. 1986 . Work in pregnancy: its evolving relationship with perinatal outcome (a review) . Social Science and Medicine , 22 : 431 – 442 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. , Messing , K. and Lert , F. 1996 . “ Activite professionnelle et same des femmes ” . In La sante desfemmes , Edited by: Saurel-Cubizolles , M. J. and Blondel , B. 327 – 349 . Paris : Flammarion .
   Google Scholar
• Savitz , D. , Olshan , A. and Gallagher , K. 1996 . Maternal occupation and pregnancy outcome . Epidemiology , 7 : 269 – 273 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Skillen , L. 1995 . “ Nurses' work hazards in public health units ” . In Invisible. Issues in Women's Occupational Health , Edited by: Messing , K. , Neis , B. and Dumais , L. 150 – 173 . Canada : Gynergy Books .
   Google Scholar
• Spender , D. 1980 . Man Made Language , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
   Google Scholar
• Sprague , J. and Zimmerman , M. 1989 . Quality and quantity: reconstructing feminist methodology . The American Sociologist , 20 : 71 – 86 .
   Google Scholar
• Stock , S. 1995 . “ A study of musculoskeletal symptoms in day-care workers ” . In Invisible. Issues in Women's Occupational Health , Edited by: Messing , K. , Neis , B. and Dumais , L. 72 – 74 . Canada : Gynergy Books .
   Google Scholar
• Thomas , A. and Kitzinger , C. 1994 . ‘It's just something that happens’: the invisibility of sexual harassment in the workplace . Gender, Work and Organization , 1 : 151 – 161 .
   Google Scholar
• Tierney , D. , Romito , P. and Messing , K. 1990 . She ate not the bread of idleness: exaustion is related to domestic and salaried working conditions among 539 Quebec hospital workers . Women and Health , 16 : 21 – 42 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• US Department of Health, Education and Welfare . 1963 . Employment During Pregnancy: legitimate live birth 1963 , Washington, DC : Government Printing Office .
   Google Scholar
• Van Esterik , P. and Grenier , T. 1981 . Breast-feeding and women's work: constraints and opportunities . Studies in Family Planning , 12 : 184 – 197 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vezina , N. , Tierney , D. and Messing , K. 1992 . When is light work heavy? Components of the physical work-load of sewing machine operators working at piecework rates . Applied Ergonomics , 23 : 268 – 276 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar