Sonya Michel

2.3k total citations
45 papers, 994 citations indexed

About

Sonya Michel is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonya Michel has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 994 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Gender Studies, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sonya Michel's work include Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 papers) and Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (7 papers). Sonya Michel is often cited by papers focused on Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 papers) and Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (7 papers). Sonya Michel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Sonya Michel's co-authors include Seth Koven, Susan Pedersen, Jane Lewis, Ito Peng, Joseph M. Hawes, Margaret Collins Weitz, Margaret R. Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Leila J. Rupp and Suzanna Danuta Walters and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Journal of American History.

In The Last Decade

Sonya Michel

40 papers receiving 712 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sonya Michel United States 14 576 394 249 203 148 45 994
Alice Kessler‐Harris United States 19 628 1.1× 226 0.6× 207 0.8× 277 1.4× 91 0.6× 79 1.1k
Jane Lewis United Kingdom 16 399 0.7× 230 0.6× 158 0.6× 134 0.7× 136 0.9× 37 817
Gwendolyn Mink United States 13 381 0.7× 297 0.8× 106 0.4× 260 1.3× 145 1.0× 35 751
Walter I. Trattner United States 14 551 1.0× 306 0.8× 120 0.5× 155 0.8× 379 2.6× 34 1.3k
Christine Delphy France 16 690 1.2× 228 0.6× 139 0.6× 448 2.2× 59 0.4× 68 1.2k
Meg Luxton Canada 15 653 1.1× 187 0.5× 42 0.2× 312 1.5× 168 1.1× 34 1.1k
Sheila Rowbotham United Kingdom 14 474 0.8× 199 0.5× 173 0.7× 222 1.1× 44 0.3× 59 935
James M. Fendrich United States 14 629 1.1× 287 0.7× 72 0.3× 95 0.5× 78 0.5× 31 909
Elaine Tyler May United States 12 494 0.9× 166 0.4× 183 0.7× 199 1.0× 31 0.2× 43 914
Suzanne Shanahan United States 10 621 1.1× 351 0.9× 36 0.1× 158 0.8× 70 0.5× 18 894

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sonya Michel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonya Michel

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All Works

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Michel, Sonya. (2019). Ethnomorality of care: Migrants and their aging parents. International Journal of Care and Caring. 3(3). 467–469. 11 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya. (2015). Wall Street Meets the Day Nursery: A New Rationale for Early Education and Care in the United States in the Twenty-First Century. Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society. 22(3). 360–380. 6 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya. (2013). Child Care Policy at the Crossroads. 24 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya & Rianne Mahon. (2013). More Can Be Less: Child Care and Welfare Reform in the United States.. 247–272. 2 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya & Ito Peng. (2012). All in the family? Migrants, nationhood, and care regimes in Asia and North America. Journal of European Social Policy. 22(4). 406–418. 51 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya. (2002). Response to Daphne Spain: “What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?”. City and Community. 1(2). 171–176. 1 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya, et al.. (2001). Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 30(2). 192–192. 1 indexed citations
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Lewis, Jane, Elizabeth Rose, & Sonya Michel. (2000). A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960.. Journal of American History. 86(4). 1805–1805. 2 indexed citations
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Koven, Seth, Sonya Michel, Theda Skocpol, et al.. (1999). The Selfless and the Helpless: Maternalist Origins of the U.S. Welfare State. Feminist Studies. 25(3). 571–571. 10 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya. (1998). Childcare and Welfare (In)Justice. Feminist Studies. 24(1). 44–44. 10 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya. (1998). The Comparative Turn: Is Women's History Ready?. Journal of women's history. 10(2). 189–197. 5 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya & Françoise Thébaud. (1996). A History of Women in the West. Volume 5, Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century.. The American Historical Review. 101(3). 805–805. 1 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya & Suzanna Danuta Walters. (1994). Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture.. The American Historical Review. 99(2). 679–679. 22 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya, et al.. (1993). Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. Western Historical Quarterly. 24(2). 245–245. 6 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya & Robyn Muncy. (1992). Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935. History of Education Quarterly. 32(1). 105–105. 5 indexed citations
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Michel, Sonya & Susan A. Glenn. (1991). Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation.. The American Historical Review. 96(5). 1624–1624. 18 indexed citations
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Koven, Seth & Sonya Michel. (1989). Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State. Radical History Review. 1989(43). 112–119. 9 indexed citations
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Rupp, Leila J., Margaret R. Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, & Margaret Collins Weitz. (1988). Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 17(6). 743–743. 82 indexed citations

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