Shifting theories: partial perspectives on the household
指出合作冲突模型忽视了家庭网络，因为假设了父权制家庭；但家庭结构因社会背景而异，是更广泛社会关系的子系统。研究女性户主家庭，用女性主义经济学和现实主义社会理论解释家庭形态和关系的多样性。
There is a neglect of networks within cooperative conflict models, which arises because of the patriarchal households assumed. But households are not the same everywhere, because their structure is dependent upon social context, and they are a sub-system of wider social relations and realities. Understanding households (in this paper female-headed households) requires us to study the varied contexts in which households are situated and the social relations of individuals within these institutions. Using contributions from feminist economics and realist social theory, this paper shows how these frameworks can explain the diversity of social reality in household formations and relations