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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Doolittle, Megan and Day Sclater, Shelley (2012). Understanding family meanings: a reflective text. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Edwards, Rosalind (2011). Key Concepts in Family Studies. London: Sage.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Doolittle, Megan and Day Sclater, Shelley (2008). Family Meanings. Milton Keynes: Open University.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2006). Young People's Experiences Of Loss And Bereavement: Towards An Interdisciplinary Approach. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Edwards, Rosalind and Gillies, Val (2003). Making families: moral tales of parenting and step-parenting. London, UK: Sociology Press.

Gillies, Val; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Holland, Janet (2001). Pulling together, pulling apart: the family lives of young people aged 16-18. London, UK: Family Policy Studies Centre / Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Ribbens, Jane (1994). Mothers and Their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing. London: Sage.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann and Gillies, Val eds. (2013). Family Troubles? Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Ribbens, Jane and Edwards, Rosalind eds. (1998). Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives. London: Sage.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Evans, Ruth (2020). The (cross-cultural) problem of categories: who is ‘child’, what is ‘family’? In: Frankel, Sam and NcNamee, Sally eds. Bringing Children Back into the Family: Relationality, Connectedness and Home. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 27. Bingley UK: Emerald Publishing, pp. 23–40.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Phoenix, Ann; Yu, Guo and Xu, Xiaoli (2017). Childhood, children and family lives in China. In: Zang, Xiaowei and Zhao, Lucy Xia eds. Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 286–304.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann and Gillies, Val (2013). Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions. In: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann and Gillies, Val eds. Family Troubles? Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2013). What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks. In: Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Hooper, Carol-Ann and Gillies, Val eds. Family Troubles? Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2012). Caring after death: issues of embodiment and relationality. In: Rogers, Chrissie and Weller, Susie eds. Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures. Relationships and resources. London: Routledge, pp. 183–194.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2010). Bereavement, young people, and social context. In: Monroe, Barbara and Kraus, Frances eds. Brief Interventions with Bereaved Children. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 29–36.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2009). Young people making meaning in response to death and bereavement. In: Balk, David and Corr, Charles eds. Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement and Coping. New York, USA: Springer Publications, pp. 21–38.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2008). Security, insecurity and family lives. In: Cochrane, Alan and Talbot, Deborah eds. Security: Welfare, Crime and Society. Berkshire, UK: Open University / Open University Press, pp. 61–92.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2007). Representing academic knowledge: the micro politics of a literature review. In: Gillies, Val and Lucey, Helen eds. Power, knowledge and the academy: the institutional is political. Basingstoke, Hants, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 122–146.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Kirkpatrick, Sue (2004). Negotiating public and private: maternal mediations of home-school boundaries. In: Grozier, Gill and Reay, Diane eds. Activating participation: parents and teachers working towards partnership. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books.

Gillies, Val; Holland, Janet and Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2003). Past/present/future: time and the meaning of change in the "family". In: Allan, Graham and Jones, Gill eds. Social relations and the life course. Explorations in Sociology (63). Basingstoke, Hants, UK: Macmillan, pp. 31–48.

Edwards, Rosalind; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Gillies, Val (2003). Biological parents and social families: legal discourses and everyday understandings of the position of step-parents. In: Cheal, David ed. Family. Critical Concepts in Sociology, III Family. Routledge.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2003). Mothers' images of children and their implications for maternal response. In: Woodhead, Martin and Montgomery, Heather eds. Understanding Childhood: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach. Milton Keynes: Wiley/Open University, pp. 75–79.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Edwards, Rosalind (2002). The individual in public and private: the significance of mothers and children. In: Carling, Alan; Duncan, Simon and Edwards, Rosalind eds. Analysing Families: Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 199–217.

Edwards, Rosalind and Ribbens, Jane (1998). Living on the edges: public knowledge, private lives, personal experience. In: Ribbens, Jane and Edward, Rosalind eds. Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives. Social Research Methods Online. London: Sage, pp. 2–20.

Ribbens, Jane (1998). Hearing my feeling voice?: An autobiographical discussion of motherhood. In: Ribbens, Jane and Edwards, Rosalind eds. Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives. Social Research Methods Online. London: Sage, pp. 25–37.

Hamilton, Sukhbinder; Golding, Berenice and Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2022). Do we need to decolonise bereavement studies? Bereavement: Journal of Grief and Responses to Death, 1(1)

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2022). Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection. Families, Relationships and Societies (Early Access).

Bowlby, Sophie; Evans, Ruth; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Wouango, Joséphine (2021). Time-space practices of care after a family death in urban Senegal. Social and Cultural Geography (Early Access).

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McCarthy, Jane Ribbens; Evans, Ruth; Bowlby, Sophie and Wouango, Joséphine (2020). Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 82(2) pp. 230–260.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Gillies, Val and Hooper, Carol-Ann (2019). “Family Troubles” and “Troubling Families”: Opening Up Fertile Ground. Journal of Family Issues, 40(16) pp. 2207–2224.

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Evans, Ruth; Bowlby, Sophie; Gottzén, Lucas and Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2019). Unpacking ‘family troubles’, care and relationality across time and space. Children's Geographies, 17(5) pp. 501–513.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Evans, Ruth and Bowlby, Sophie (2019). Diversity challenges from urban West Africa: How Senegalese family deaths illuminate dominant understandings of ‘bereavement’. Bereavement Care, 38(2-3) pp. 83–90.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Gillies, Val (2018). Troubling children's families: who's troubled and why? Approaches to inter-cultural dialogue. Sociological Research Online, 23(1) pp. 219–244.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Gillies, Val and Hooper, Carol-Ann (2018). Troubling families: introduction. Sociological Research Online, 23(1) pp. 153–159.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Guo, Yu; Phoenix, Ann; Xu, Xiaoli and Knight, Abigail (2017). The Institutionalisation of ‘TongNian’ and ‘childhood’ in China and Britain: Exploring Cautious Comparisons. Children and Society, 31(1) pp. 1–12.

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Evans, Ruth; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Kébé, Fatou; Bowlby, Sophie and Wouango, Joséphine (2017). Interpreting ‘grief’ in Senegal: language, emotions and cross-cultural translation in a francophone African context. Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, 22(2) pp. 118–135.

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Evans, Ruth; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Bowlby, Sophie; Wouango, Joséphine and Kébé, Fatou (2017). Producing emotionally sensed knowledge? Reflexivity and emotions in researching responses to death. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(6) pp. 585–598.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Prokhovnik, Raia (2014). Embodied relationality and caring after death. Body & Society, 20(2) pp. 18–43.

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Edwards, Rosalind; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Gillies, Val (2012). The politics of concepts: family and its (putative) replacements. British Journal of Sociology, 63(4) pp. 730–746.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2012). The powerful relational language of ‘family’: togetherness, belonging and personhood. Sociological Review, 60(1) pp. 68–90.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2007). 'They all look as if they're coping, but I'm not': the relational power/lessness of 'youth' in responding to experiences of bereavement. Journal of Youth Studies, 10(3) pp. 285–303.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2006). Reslience and bereaved children: developing complex approaches. Grief Matters, 9(3) pp. 58–61.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Holland, Janet and Gillies, Val (2003). Multiple perspectives on the 'family' lives of young people: methodological and theoretical issues in case study research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 6(1) pp. 1–23.

Edwards, Rosalind; Back-Wiklund, Margareta; Bak, Maren and Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2002). Step-fathering: comparing policy and everyday experience in Britain and Sweden. Sociological Research Online, 7(1)

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Edwards, Rosalind (2001). Illuminating meanings of `the Private' in sociological thought: a response to Joe Bailey. Sociology, 35(3) pp. 765–777.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Edwards, Rosalind and Gillies, Val (2000). Moral tales of the child and the adult: Narratives of contemporary family lives under changing circumstances. Sociology, 34(4) pp. 785–803.

Bell, Linda and Ribbens, Jane (1994). Isolated housewives and complex maternal worlds: The significance of social contacts between women with young children in industrial societies. Sociological Review, 42(2) pp. 227–262.

Evans, Ruth; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane; Bowlby, Sophie; Wouango, Joséphine and Kébé, Fatou (2016). Responses to Death, Care and Family Relations in Urban Senegal. University of Reading, Reading.

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Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2007). Children, young people and bereavement. National Children's Bureau, London, UK.

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane and Jessop, Julie (2005). Young People, Bereavement and Loss: Disruptive transitions? National Children's Bureau, London, UK.