Peer-Reviewed Articles (*denotes equal co-authorship)
de Laat, Kim, Andrea Doucet and Alyssa Gerhardt*. 2023. “More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers’ participation in unpaid care work.” Community, Work & Family, 1-23.
de Laat, Kim. 2023. “Living to work (from home): Overwork, remote work, and gendered dual devotion to work and family.” Work and Occupations, 0(0).
de Laat, Kim. 2023. “Remote work and post-bureaucracy: Unintended consequences of work design for gender inequality.” ILR Review, 76(1): 135–159.
de Laat, Kim and Alanna Stuart.* 2023. “Valuations of diversity: The role of marquee quotas in creative industries.” Socio-Economic Review, 21(3): 1524-1549.
de Laat, Kim and Allyson Stokes.* 2022. Cultural Sociology and the politics of canonization: An Anglo-Canadian perspective. Cultural Sociology, 16(2): 274-298.
de Laat, Kim. 2019. “Singing the romance: Gendered and racialized representations of love and postfeminism in popular music.” Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts 77: 101382.
de Laat, Kim and Shyon Baumann. 2016. “Caring consumption as marketing schema: representations of motherhood in an era of hyperconsumption.” Journal of Gender Studies 25(2): 183-199.
de Laat, Kim. 2015. “‘Write a word, get a third’: Managing conflict and rewards in professional songwriting teams.” Work and Occupations 42: 225-256 - Winner of the U of T Sociology Daniel G. Hill Best Student Paper Award
de Laat, Kim. 2014. “Innovation and Diversity Redux: Analyzing musical form and content in the American recording industry, 1990–2009.” Sociological Forum 29(3): 673-697
Taylor, Judith, and Kim de Laat. 2013. “Feminist internships and the depression of political imagination: Implications for Women’s Studies.” Feminist Formations 25(1): 84-110.
Baumann, Shyon, and Kim de Laat. 2012. “Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising.” Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts 40 (6): 514-541
Book Chapters
Baumann, Shyon, and Kim de Laat. 2014. “Aspiration and Compromise: Portrayals of Older Adults in Television Advertising.” Aging, Media, and Culture, edited by C. Lee Harrington, Denise Bielby and Anthony Bardo. Lexington Books
Cairns, Kate, Kim de Laat, Josée Johnston and Shyon Baumann. 2014.“The Caring, Committed Eco-Mom: Consumption ideals and lived realities of Toronto mothers.” Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco Chic, edited by Rivke Jaffe and Bart Barendregt. Berg Publishers.