Book

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Research Publications

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. Forthcoming. “Waiting for the Kids: Intensive Parenting and the Timing of Parental Gender Transition.” In Gokhan Savas and Sampson L. Blair (Eds.) Parenting and Gender: Practices, Ideologies, and Inequalities Across Contexts. Emerald Publishing.

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A., Cassie Mead, Jamie Oslawski-Lopez, and Rebecca K. Grady. 2025. “Division of Household Labor Over the Life Course: Structural or Symbolic Pressures?” Journal of Marriage and Family. doi: 10.1111/jomf.70023 (Publisher Link)

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A., Jennifer Lee, and Tiffanie Vo. 2025. “Model Students, Model Citizens: Narratives of Japanese American Students, 1930s-1940s.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. doi: 10.1177/2332649225134977 (Publisher Link)

  • Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie and Jaclyn A. Tabor. 2025. “Egalitarian Intentions and Gendered Beliefs: Gender and Fertility Decisions.” Pp. 99-120 in Marcia T. Segal and Vasilikie Demos (Eds.) Gender, Power, and Society: Persistence and Social Change. Emerald Publishing. (Publisher Link)

  • Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie and Jaclyn A. Tabor. 2024. “Who Can Refuse? Gender and Fertility Decisions among Different-Sex Couples.” Journal of Family Issues. doi: 10.1177/0192513X241299421 (Publisher Link)

  • Miller, Lisa R. and Jaclyn A. Tabor. 2024. “A Life Course Perspective on Sexual Minorities: Implications for the Study of Homophobic Prejudice and Discrimination.” Sociology Compass. doi: 10.1111/soc4.13207 (Publisher Link)

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2021. “Gender, Families, and Work.” Social Studies of Gender: A Next Wave Reader. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. (Publisher Link)

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2019. “Mom, Dad, or Somewhere In Between: Ambiguities Facing Children of Transgender Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12537 (Publisher Link)

  • Powell, Brian, Jaclyn A. Tabor, and Lisa A. Miller. 2018. "Diverse Family Forms and Children's Well-being." Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. doi: 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0449 (Publisher Link)

Teaching and Learning Publications

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2026. “The Teenage Bill of Rights: Social Construction of Adolescence from 1945 to the Present.” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. (Publisher Link)

  • Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie and Jaclyn A. Tabor. 2025. "Is it “All Right” to Refuse to Have Children With One’s Spouse?" TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. (Publisher Link)

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2020. “Trans Parents’ Relationships with Children.” Goldberg and Beemyn (Eds.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing. (Publisher Link)

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2016. “Sociology of Childhood.” Pp. 1-4 in Constance L. Shehan (Ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781119085621.wbefs109 (Publisher Link)

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2016. “Sibling Relationships.” Pp. 1-3 in Constance L. Shehan (Ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781119085621.wbefs108 (Publisher Link)

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. 2016. “Adjustment to Divorce (Children).” Pp. 1-4 in Constance L. Shehan (Ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781119085621.wbefs117 (Publisher Link)

Current Projects

Empirical Research

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. “Protective Non-Referral: Rethinking Community Engagement with Politicized Families.” Manuscript submitted to invited special section, Family Relations.

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. “Circulating Responsibility: Children’s Emotional, Interpretive, and Interactional Labor in Trans-Parent Families.”

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. “Gendered Holidays, Transgender Families: Negotiating Kinship and Recognition Among People with Trans Parents.”

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. and Jennifer Lee. “Engineering Success: Institutional Narratives and the Making of Asian American Model Minorities.”

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. and Sarah J. Hatteburg. “Good Neighbors? The Neighbor Effect and the Limits of Support in Economically Competitive Environments.”

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. “Teaching Gender as Interaction: A Structured Discussion Protocol Using Provocative Prompts.” Revise and resubmit, Teaching Sociology.

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A. “Personalization without Individualization: Designing AI-Supported Vignettes for Student Sensemaking.”

  • Tabor, Jaclyn A., Cassie Mead, Jamie Oslawski-Lopez, and Rebecca K. Grady. “The Division of Household Labor – A Theory-Driven Data Exercise.”

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