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ESRC Seminar Series

Over 2009 and 2010, colleagues involved with Parenting Culture Studies will be organising an ESRC funded seminar series title 'Changing Parenting Culture'. For more information follow the link at the top of this page.

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Two events held in Summer 2008 addressed many themes and issues relevant to Parenting Culture Studies. For reports about the Advice to Mothers Workshop held at Warwick University in late June, and the Modern Motherhood Conference held in London in early July, click here.

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Welcome to the Parenting Culture Studies Website (PCS)

 

Parenting Culture Studies is an informal network of scholars from different countries and disciplines who are together developing a critique of contemporary parenting culture. Our research covers themes and issues including the following:
  • Intensive motherhood
  • The medicalisation of parenthood and the professionalisation of everyday life
  • Risk consciousness and parenting culture
  • Gender and parenting: the ‘intensification’ of fatherhood
  • The management of emotion and the sacralisation of ‘bonding’
  • The politics of parenting culture
  • The policing of pregnancy (including diet, alcohol consumption, smoking)
  • Reproductive choices (including contraceptive use, family size)
  • The moralisation of infant feeding (including breast and formula feeding, weaning)
  • Sleeping/co-sleeping
  • The experience of the culture of advice / ‘parenting support’

To find out more follow the links on the site.

 

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