Monitoring parents:

Childrearing in the age of 'intensive parenting'

 

Programme


(subject to change)

A printable copy of the programme is available here

Monday May 21

 

 
9 - 10am
 
Registration and tea and coffee
     
10 - 10.15am
 

Welcome and comments on background to 'Monitoring Parents': Infant feeding in a culture of intensive parenting

Speaker: Ellie Lee

     
10.15-11.30am
 

Plenary session

Understanding 'parenting culture'

Speakers: Susan Douglas / Frank Furedi
Chair: Ellie Lee

 
11.30am - 1pm
 

Paper sessions

Mothering in the early days and weeks

Chair: Stephanie Knaak

  • Liz Gale, An Uneven Playing Field? The medicalisation of pregnancy and the 'risk management' of postnatal support
  • Kristin Klingaman, Maternal satisfaction on the postnatal ward after caesarean section delivery
  • Elizabeth Murphy, Dealing with Deviance: mother's accounts of their infant feeding practices

Teenage Parenthood in Britain

Chair: Jan Macvarish

  • Helen Holgate, 'I wish they would ask instead of just judging' - Young Mothers' Experiences
  • Suzanne Cater , 'Planned' teenage pregnancy: Perspectives of young women from disadvantaged backgrounds in England
  • Clare Seamark, Positive experiences of teenage motherhood

Shifting constructions of parenting

Chair: Stuart Waiton

1 - 2.15pm
 
Lunch
 
2.15-4.15pm
 

Paper sessions

Intensive mothering: mothers' experiences

Chair: Elizabeth Murphy

  • Charlotte Faircloth, Marginal mothers: the case of 'full term' breastfeeding
  • Glenda Wall, Mothers' experiences with intensive parenting and new brain research
  • Helen Bowcock, 'Just the One?' Experiences of mothers who have only one child

Intensive parenting and disability

Chair: Susan Douglas

  • Christine Rogers, Regulating parenting: blame and problematic diagnosis in parenting 'disabled' children
  • Emma Clavering and Janice McLaughlin, Intensive parenting or intensive caring? The narratives and experiences of parents of disabled babies and infants
  • Fran Wright, Compulsory intensive mothering: caring for a child with a disability
  • Naomi Narramore, Meeting expectations? The emotional management of parents who give birth to a child with a disability or critical illness

 

The Politics of Teenage Parenthood

Chair: Ellie Lee

  • Lesley Hoggart, Teenage Motherhood and the construction of 'alternative' moral agendas
  • Pam Alldred, What's Important to Whom? Young Mothers Challenging Policy Assumptions
  • Jan Macvarish, Why is Teenage Parenthood Problematised?
  • Maud Perrier, Performing Intensive Mothering: The Influence of Class on 'Motherwork' Accounts

 
4.30-5.45pm  

Plenary session

Philosophical and sociological perspectives on intensive motherhood

Rebecca Kukla / Stephanie Knaak

Chair: Frank Furedi

Discussants: Elizabeth Murphy, Sally Sheldon

     
6.15-8.15pm   Buffet and wine reception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
8-9am   Tea and Coffee
     
9 - 11am
 

Paper sessions

Mediating intensive parenting

Chair: Susan Douglas

  • Mary Ann Kanieski, Best Be the Ties That Bind: Discourse and Discipline in Bonding Research
  • Jo Haigh, Too Posh To Push: Elective Caesarean Sections and Moral Panics
  • Timo Heimerdinger, Infant feeding decisions in Germany 1950-2000. Historical-ethnographic perspectives on the popular discourse
  • Denise Ferris, Regarding the Familiar: The Anxiety and Necessity of the Imaged Public Child

Tensions in parenting policy

Chair: Kate O'Brien

  • Jane Reeves, Absence makes the professional try harder? Meeting the needs of socially excluded young men who become fathers
  • Val Gillies, 'Tell them what they want to hear and then do what works': navigating the contemporary politics of parenting
  • Harriet Churchill, Constructions of responsible parenting: New Labour and maternal perspectives and concerns contrasted
  • Amanda Holt, Parenting Orders, Youth Justice Policy and the discursive shaping of subjectivity

Gender and parenting culture

Chair: Frank Furedi

  • Ara Francis, Understanding the gendered nature of intensive parenting: The importance of action and interaction
  • Suzanne Smythe, The Good Mother: Literary advice to Canadian mothers in the 20th Century
  • Jemimah Bailey, Fathers and Breastfeeding in Ireland
  • Lisa Symth, Gendered spaces and Intimate citizenship: the case of breastfeeding
     
11-11.15 am   Tea and Coffee
     
11.15am - 12.45pm
 

Paper sessions

Health promotion and feeding children

Chair: Rebecca Kukla

  • Robin Mackenzie, Sacrificing the fatted calves and childhood obesity
  • Julia Keenan et al, Feeding the family and regulating a healthy balance: women anticipating first time motherhood
  • Therese Andrews, Implications of infant feeding policy on infant feeding practices - the case of Norway

Child protection

Chair: Frank Furedi

Parenting culture and the problem of sleep

Chair: Ellie Lee

  • Helen Ball, Reducing risk, promoting health; the implications of competing strategies aimed at influencing the practices of parents regarding infant feeding and sleeping 
  • Emma Head, Dangerous sleep? An analysis of sleep advice aimed at new parents
  • Stephanie Knaak, Sleep deprivation as a problem of entitlement: The influence of contemporary mothering ideology on mothers' personal wellbeing
 
12.45 - 2.15pm
 
Lunch / informal discussion on conference outputs
 

2.15 - 3.45pm

 
Paper sessions

Health professionals and their role

Chair: Mary Fewtrell

  • Alison Wall, What Choice in Infant Feeding Methods?
  • Ros Delaney, Sex Talk? Overcoming barriers about sex and contraception after childbirth
  • Sue Battersby, Midwives dilemmas with mothers' choices of infant feeding

Law and parenting

Chair: Robin Mackenzie

  • Grace James, Law's Response to Pregnancy/Workplace Conflicts: A Critique.
  • Helen Reece, The Changing Meaning of Parental Responsibility
  • Sally Sheldon, Reconceiving Fathers: Shifting Discourses of Fatherhood and Reproduction

Analysing family life

Chair: Helen Bowcock

  • Stefano Ba', Between play and ritual: Family life with children
  • Ann Rich, Grandparents and parenting: towards a theory of Grandparenthood.
  • Esther Goh, Powerful or powerless? The experience of single children being raised on 4-2-1 families in urban Xiamen, China
 

3.45pm

 
Conference close
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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