Publications by Ellen Gee
Books and Monographs
2003	Chappell, Neena, Gee, Ellen M., McDonald, Lynn and Stones, Mike. Aging in Contemporary Canada. Toronto: Pearson Educational Publishers/Prentice Hall.
2000	Gee, Ellen M. and Gutman, Gloria M. (eds.). The Overselling of Population Aging: Apocalyptic Demography, Intergenerational Challenges, and Social Policy. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
1995	Beaujot, Roderic, Gee, Ellen M., Rajulton, Fernando, and Ravanera, Zenaida. Family Over the Life Course. Ottawa: Statistics Canada Catalogue No. 91-543.
1995	Gee, Ellen M. and Gutman, Gloria M. (eds.), Rethinking Retirement: Social Policy Challenges for the 90s, Vancouver: Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre Publications.
1987	Gee, Ellen M. and Kimball, Meredith, Women and Aging, Toronto: Butterworths.
1985	Gee, Ellen M. and Gutman, Gloria M. (eds.), Canadian Gerontological Collection V: The Challenge of Time, Winnipeg: Canadian Association on Gerontology.
Refereed Journals
forth.	Prus, Steven and Gee, Ellen M. “Gender Differences in the Influence of Economic, Lifestyle, and Psychosocial Factors in Later-Life Health.” Canadian Journal of Public Health.
2002	Gee, Ellen M. "Misconceptions and Misapprehensions about Population Aging." International Journal of Epidemiology 31: 750-753.
2002	Mitchell, Barbara A., Wister, Andrew V., and Gee, Ellen M. "'There's No Place Like Home': Mature Co-Residency in Canada." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 54:57-84.
2001	Gee, Ellen M. "Microbes and Us." Current Sociology 49(4): 5-18.
2000	Gee, Ellen M. “Living Arrangements and Quality of Life Among Chinese Canadian Elders.” Social Indicators Research 51: 309-329.
2000	Mitchell, Barbara A, Wister, Andrew V. and Gee, Ellen M. "Culture and Co-Residence: An Exploration of Variation in Home-Returning among Canadian Young Adults." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 37: 167-192.
1999	Gee, Ellen M. “Ethnic Identity Among Foreign-Born Chinese Canadian Elders.” Canadian Journal on Aging 18: 415-429
1998	Gee, Ellen M. and McDonald, Lynn. “CAG Position Paper on Pensions,” Canadian Journal on Aging 17: i-vii.
1997	Wister, Andrew V., Mitchell, Barbara A., and Gee, Ellen M. “Does Money Matter? Parental Income and Living Arrangement Satisfaction Among ‘Boomerang’ Children During Coresidence,” Canadian Studies in Population 24: 125-145.
1997	Gee, Ellen M. “Policy and Research on Aging: Connections and Conundrums/La politique du vieillissement et la recherche - des liens mais aussi des énigmes,” Canadian Public Policy/Canadian Journal on Aging (special joint issue). Supplement: i-xviii.
1996	Mitchell, Barbara A. and Gee, Ellen M. “Boomerang Kids and Mid-Life Parental Marital Satisfaction.” Family Relations 45: 442-448.
1996	Veevers, Jean E., Gee, Ellen M. and Wister, Andrew V. “Homeleaving Age Norms: Conflict or Consensus?” International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 43: 1-19.
1995	Gee, Ellen M., Mitchell, Barbara A. and Wister, Andrew V. “Returning to the Parental “Nest”: Exploring a Changing Canadian Life Course.” Canadian Studies in Population, 22: 121-144.
1994	Wister, Andrew V. and Gee, Ellen M. “Age at Death Due to Ischemic Heart Disease: Gender Differences,” Social Biology, 41: 110-126.
1993	Gee, Ellen M. “The Future of Demography in Canada,” Canadian Studies in Population, 20: 225-230.
1993	Gee, Ellen M. and McDaniel, Susan A. “Social Policy for an Aging Society,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 28: 139-152. Also published in V.W. Marshall and B. McPherson (eds.), Aging: Canadian Perspectives, Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1994. Reprinted in M. Novak (ed.), Aging and Society: A Canadian Reader, Scarborough: Nelson, 1995.
1993	McDaniel, Susan A. and Gee, Ellen M. “Social Policies Regarding Caregiving to Elders: Canadian Contradictions,” Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 5: 57-72. Also published in S.A. Bass and R. Morris (eds.), International Perspectives on State and Family Support for the Elderly, New York: Haworth Press, 1993.
1992	Gee, Ellen M. “Only Children as Adult Women: Life Course Events and Timing,” Social Indicators Research, 26: 183-197.
1991	Gee, Ellen M. and McDaniel, Susan A. “Pension Policies and Challenges: Retirement Policy Implications,” Canadian Public Policy, 17: 456-472. Excerpted in G.S. Lowe and H.J. Krahn (eds.), Work in Canada: Readings in the Sociology of Work and Industry, Scarborough: Nelson 1993.
1991	Gee, Ellen M. and McDaniel, James G. “Estimating the Need for Child Care: The Canadian Case,” Canadian Journal of Statistics, 19: 249-265.
1991	Gee, Ellen M. “The Transition to Grandmotherhood: A Quantitative Study,” Canadian Journal on Aging, 10: 251-267.
1991	Gee, Ellen M. “Gender Differences in Church Attendance in Canada: The Role of Labor Force Participation,” Review of Religious Research, 32: 267-273.
1990	Gee, Ellen M. “Preferred Timing of Women’s Life Events: A Canadian Study,” International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 34: 281-296.
1990	Gee, Ellen M. “Demographic Change and Intergenerational Relations in Canadian Families: Findings and Social Policy Implications,” Canadian Public Policy, 16: 191-199.
1990	Gee, Ellen M. and Veevers, Jean E. “Religious Involvement and Life Satisfaction in Canada,” Sociological Analysis, 51: 387-394.
1989	Gee, Ellen M. and Veevers, Jean E. “Religiously Unaffiliated Canadians: Sex, Age and Regional Variations,” Social Indicators Research, 21: 151-167.
1989	Alderman, Philip and Gee, Ellen M. “Sterilization: Canadian Choices,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 140: 645-649. Excerpted in S. Dumas et al., L’infertilite iatrogenique, Ottawa: Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, 1993.
1988	Gee, Ellen M. and Boyce, A. Margery “Veterans and Veterans Legislation in Canada: An Historical Overview,” Canadian Journal on Aging, 7: 204-217.
1987	Gee, Ellen M. “Living Longer, Dying Differently,” Generations, 11:5-8.
1986	Veevers, Jean E. and Gee, Ellen M. “Playing It Safe: Accident Mortality and Gender Roles,” Sociological Focus, 19: 349-360.
1986	Gee, Ellen M. “The Life Course of Canadian Women: An Historical and Demographic Analysis,” Social Indicators Research, 18: 263-283. Reprinted in Arlene T. McLaren (ed.), Gender and Society, Toronto: Copp Clark, 1988, and Frank Trovato and Carl Grindstaff (eds.), Perspectives in Canada’s Population, Oxford, 1994.
1985	Gee, Ellen M. and Veevers, Jean E. “Increasing Sex Mortality Differentials Among Black Americans, 1950-1978,” Phylon: A Review of Race and Culture, 46: 162-175.
1984	Gee, Ellen M. “Mortality and Gender,” Canadian Woman Studies, 5: 10-13.
1983	Gee, Ellen M. and Veevers, Jean E. “Accelerating Sex Mortality Differentials: An Analysis of Contributing Factors,” Social Biology, 30: 75-85.
1982	Gee, Ellen M. “Marriage in Nineteenth Century Canada,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 19: 311-325. Excerpted in G.N. Ramu (ed.), Marriage and the Family in Canada Today, Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1993.
1980	Gee, Ellen M. “Female Marriage Patterns in Canada: Changes and Differentials,” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 11: 457-473.
1979	Gee, Ellen M. “Early Canadian Fertility Transition: A Components Analysis of Census Data,” Canadian Studies in Population, 6: 23-32.
1974	Taveggia, Thomas C. and Thomas, Ellen M. “Latchkey Children,” Pacific Sociological Review, 17: 27-34.
Contributions to Books/Anthologies
2003	Gee, Ellen M. and Mitchell, Barbara A. “Exploring Multi-generational Families in Canada” in M. Lynn (ed.) Voices: Essays on Canadian Families (2nd ed). Toronto, Nelson, 293-319.
2002	Gee, Ellen M. "Causes of Death, "Infant Mortality," "Population Growth," "Gender and Death," “Malthus,” "Demographics and Statistics," "Life Expectancy," and “Maternal Mortality" in Robert Kastenbaum (editor-in-chief) Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan Reference.
2000	Gee, Ellen M. "Population and Politics: Voodoo Demography, Population Aging, and Social Policy" in E. Gee and G. Gutman (eds), The Overselling of Population Aging: Apocalyptic Demography, Intergenerational Challenges, and Social Policy. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 5-25.
2000	Gee, Ellen M. and Prus, Steven G. "Income Inequality in Canada: A 'Racial Divide'" in M.A. and W.E. Kalbach (eds), Perspectives on Ethnicity in Canada, Toronto: Harcourt Canada, 238-256
1999	Gee, Ellen M. "Contemporary Diversities" in N. Mandell and A. Duffy (eds.), Canadian Families: Diversity, Conflict and Change (2nd ed.), Toronto: Harcourt Bruce, 78-111.
1999	Gee, Ellen M. "Demographic Change in Canada - Looking to 2020" in W. Bogart (ed.) Access to Affordable and Appropriate Law Related Service in 2020, Ottawa: Canadian Bar Association, 31-40.
1999	Gee, Ellen M. “Living Arrangements and Quality of Life Among Chinese Canadian Elders” in Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference for the International Year of Older Persons, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Council of Social Service, 405-422.
1997	Gee, Ellen M. “Living Arrangements Among Chinese Canadian Elders” in Ethnic Studies and Population, Research Paper No. 5, Calgary: University of Calgary.
1996	Mitchell, Barbara A. and Gee, Ellen M. “Young Adults Returning Home: Implications for Social Policy” in J. Hudson and B. Galaway (eds.) Youth in Transition to Adulthood: Research and Policy Implications, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 61-71.
1995	Gee, Ellen M. “Families in Later Life” in Family Over the Life Course: Current Demographic Analysis, Ottawa: Ministry of Industry, Statistics Canada Catalogue No. 91-543, 77-113.
1995	Gee, Ellen M. “Population Aging: A Contested Terrain of Social Policy,” and Gee, Ellen M. and Gutman, Gloria M. “Introduction” in Ellen M. Gee and Gloria M. Gutman (eds.), Rethinking Retirement: Social Policy Challenges for the 90’s, Vancouver: Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre Publications, 13-29, 1-12.
1994	Gee, Ellen M. “Contemporary Diversities” in N. Mandell and A. Duffy (eds.), Canadian Families: Diversity, Conflict and Change, Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 79-109.
1994	Gee, Ellen M. “What is the Family?” in R.B. Hagedorn (ed.), Sociology (5th ed.), Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 369-398.
1993	Gee, Ellen M. “Adult Outcomes Associated with Childhood Family Structure: An Appraisal of Research and an Examination of Canadian Data,” in J. Hudson and B. Galaway (eds.), Single Parent Families: Canadian Research and Policy Implications, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 289-308.
1990	Gee, Ellen M. “The Changing Demography of Intergenerational Relations in Canada,” in P.A. Conrad and V. White (eds.), Canadian Gerontological Collection VII, Ottawa: Canadian Association on Gerontology, 49-69.
1990	Gee, Ellen M. Family Chapter in Robert B. Hagedorn (eds.), Sociology, (Fourth Canadian Edition), Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 315-341.
1990	Gee, Ellen M. Population Chapter in Robert B. Hagedorn (ed.), Sociology, Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 195-226. Also Chapters in Third Edition (1986: 203-33), Second Edition (1983: 193-223) and First Edition (1980: 191-233).
1989	Gee, Ellen M. “Causes of Death,” “International Classification of Diseases,” and “Mortality Rate,” in R. Kastenbaum and B. Kastenbaum (eds.-in-chief), The Encyclopedia of Death, Phoenix: Oryx Press, 38-41, 160-161, 183-185.
1988	Gee, Ellen M. and Veevers, Jean E. “Recent Trends in Canadian Sex Differentials in Mortality: The Middle-Aged Turnaround,” in Contributions to Demography: Methodological and Substantive, Edmonton: University of Alberta, 435-456.
1988	Gee, Ellen M. Population Chapter in Richard Holmes (ed.), Fundamentals of Sociology, Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 180-209.
1988	Boyce, A. Margery and Gee, Ellen M. “Aging Veterans in Canada,” in Eloise Rathbone-McCuan and Betty Havens (eds.), North American Elders: U.S. and Canadian Perspectives, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 181-200.
1987	Gee Ellen M. “Historical Change in the Life Course of Canadian Men and Women,” in Victor M. Marshall (ed.), Aging in Canada: Social Perspectives (2nd ed.), Don Mills: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 265-287.
1983	Gee, Ellen M. Population Chapter in Robert B. Hagedorn (ed.), Essentials of Sociology, Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Second Canadian Edition), 369-399. Also Population Chapter in First Canadian Edition (1981: 277-314).
1983	Gee, Ellen M. Population Chapter in Robert B. Hagedorn (ed.), Sociology, Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown, 412-439 (American Edition).
Reviews
2003	Review of M.Hurd and M. Macdonald, “Beyond Coping: Widows Reinventing Their Lives.” Atlantis 27: 114-115.
1997	Review of J.B. Burbidge et al., “When We’re 65: Reforming Canada’s Retirement Income System,” Canadian Public Policy, 23: 467-468.
1995	Review of W. McVey and W. Kalbach, “Canadian Population,” Canadian Studies in Population, 22: 187-188.
1995	Review of A. Heitlinger, “Women’s Equality, Demography and Public Policies: A Comparative Perspective,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 20: 275-277.
1994	Review of R.A. Singleton et al., “Approaches to Social Research,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 35: 288-289
1994	Review of T.R. Balakrishnan et al., “Family and Childbearing in Canada: A Demographic Analysis,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 31: 359-361.
1993	Review of J. Ursel, “Private Lives, Public Policy: 100 Years of State Intervention in the Family,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 18: 333-335.
1993	Review of N. Keyfitz and W. Flieger, “World Population Growth and Aging: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century,” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 24: 148-149.
1992	Review of R. Beaujot, “Population Change in Canada: The Challenges of Policy Adaptation,” Canadian Studies in Population, 19: 247-249.
1992	Review of B. McPherson, “Aging as a Social Process,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 17: 113-114.
1991	Review of Jones et al., “Lives of Their Own: The Individualization of Women’s Lives,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 16: 313-315.
1991	Review of I. Connidis, “Family Ties and Aging,” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 22: 121-122.
1990	Review of C. Russell, “100 Predictions for the Baby Boom,” Canadian Studies in Population, 17: 136-137.
1988	Review of J. Vallin and A.D. Lopez, (eds.), “Health Policy, Social Policy and Mortality Prospects,” Canadian Studies in Population, 15: 125-127.
1988	Review of J. Davidson, “The Stroll: Inner-City Subcultures,” Canadian Book Review Annual (1986: 210-211).
1987	Review of S.A. McDaniel, “Canada’s Aging Population,” Journal of Gerontology, 42: 121.
1986	Review of G.H. Elder, Jr. (ed.), “Life Course Dynamics: Trajectories and Transitions, 1968-1980,” Social Indicators Research, 18: 425-428.
1985	Review of A.F.K. Organski et al., “Births, Deaths and Taxes: The Demographic and Political Transitions,” Social Indicators Research, 17: 99-202.
1984	Review of R. Beaujot and K. McQuillan, “Growth and Dualism: The Demographic Development of Canada,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 21: 111-112.
1983	Review of J.J. Jackson, “Minorities and Aging,” Canadian Ethnic Studies, 15: 133-134.
1982	Review of “A Profile of Canada’s Older Population” and “Living Alone in Canada: Demographic and Economic Perspectives, 1951-1976,” Resources for Feminist Research, 11: 233.
Other
1998	Gee, Ellen M. “ Apocalyptic Demography and the Canadian Social Policy Scam.” Kinesis, July/Aug., p. 10.
1998	Gee, Ellen M. “The Myth of Apocalyptic Demography.” Vancouver Sun, May 10, p. A15.
1997	Gee, Ellen M. “Social Research Methods: An Orientation” and “Population” in SA 150 - Introduction to Sociology - Distance Education. Simon Fraser University. (pp. 37-57 and 79-102).
1995	Gee, Ellen M. and McDonald, P. Lynn. Position Paper on Pensions, Ottawa: Canadian Association on Gerontology.
1988-89	Gee, Ellen M. “Response to K.K. Takenaka’s Paper,” in K.K. Takenaka (ed.), Problems of Senior Citizens in The Post-Industrial Societies (Canada-Japan Joint Research), 1986-1989, University of Tsukuba: Tsukuba (Japan), 47-50.
1988	Veevers, Jean E. and Gee, Ellen M. “Religiously Unaffiliated Canadians: Demographic and Social Correlates of Secularization,” The Review of Demography and Its Implications for Economic and Social Policy (Update Number Five), Ottawa: Health and Welfare Canada, 17-20.
1986	Gutman, Gloria, Gee, Ellen M., Bojanowski, Belle and Mottet, D., Fact Book on Aging in British Columbia, Burnaby: Gerontology Research Centre.
1982	Gee, Ellen M. Discussion of John F. Myles “Social Implications of Canada’s Changing Age Structure,” in Gloria M. Gutman (ed.), Canada’s Changing Age Structure: Implications for the Future, Burnaby: Gerontology Research Centre, 59-66.
1980	Gee, Ellen M. Comment on “An Extended Family Model from Islamic Culture,” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 11: 265-267.
1979	Gee, Ellen M. “The Sociology of Demographic Change: Canada and British Columbia,” in Urban Settlements Distribution: The Dynamics of Canada’s System, The Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia, Occasional Paper No. 11, 53-64.

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