Selected Publications
Books
Gazso, Amber and Karen Kobayashi, Editors. Continuity and Innovation: Canadian Families in the New Millennium. Toronto: Nelson. Forthcoming 2018. http://www.nelson.com/catalogue/productOverview.do?Ntt=continuity+and+innovation||84445435690035903950503652444404019&N=197&Ntk=nelson%7C%7CP_EPI&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial
Bischoping, Katherine and Amber Gazso. 2016. Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences: Conversation, Discourse, and Narrative Strategies. London: Sage. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/analyzing-talk-in-the-social-sciences/book240935
Articles
Webb, Jason, and Amber Gazso. 2017. “Being Homeless and Becoming Housed: The Interplay of Fateful Moments and Social Support in Neo-liberal Context.” Studies in Social Justice 11(1): 65-85.
McDaniel, Susan, Amber Gazso, and Karen Duncan. 2016. “Relative Prospects of Children as they Age: Canadians and Americans in Mid-Life in the Great Recession Frame Future Generations.” Journal of Aging Studies 37: 69-80.
Gazso, Amber, Susan McDaniel and Ingrid Waldron. 2016. “Networks of Social Support toManage Poverty: More Changeable than Durable.” Journal of Poverty 20(4): 441-463.
Gazso, Amber and Susan McDaniel. 2015. “Families by Choice and the Management of Low Income through Social Supports.” Journal of Family Issues 36(3), 371-395.
McDaniel, Susan, Gazso, Amber and Seonggee Um. 2013. “Generationing Relations in Challenging Times: Americans and Canadians in Mid-Life in the Great Recession.” Current Sociology 61, 301-321.
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.
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. “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.
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.
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
Gazso, Amber. 2016. “Low Income Lone Mothers and “Home”: The Importance of Social Relations.” In Sociology of Home, edited by G. Anderson, L. Suski, and J. Moore. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
Gazso, Amber. 2016. “Mothers’ Maintenance of Families through Market and Family Care Relations. ” In Feminist Issues: Race, Class, and Sexuality, 6th edition, edited by Nancy Mandell and Jennifer Johnson. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall. (significant revision of 2009 chapter)
Gazso, Amber. 2015. “Gendering Social Assistance Reform. In Welfare Reform in Canada:Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective, edited by Daniel Béland andPierre-Marc Daigneault. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Gazso, Amber. 2014. “Parenting Young Children: Decisions and Realities.” In Canadian Families Today: New Perspectives, 3rd edition, edited by Patrizia Albanese and David Cheal. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Scobie, Olivia and Amber Gazso. 2013. “‘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.