Programme
(subject to change)
A printable copy of the programme is available here
Monday May 21
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9 - 10am |
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Registration and tea and coffee |
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10 - 10.15am |
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Welcome and comments on background to 'Monitoring Parents': Infant feeding in a culture of intensive parenting
Speaker: Ellie Lee
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10.15-11.30am |
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Plenary session
Understanding 'parenting culture'
Speakers: Susan Douglas / Frank Furedi
Chair: Ellie Lee
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11.30am - 1pm |
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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
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1 - 2.15pm |
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Lunch |
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2.15-4.15pm |
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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
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| 4.30-5.45pm |
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Plenary session
Philosophical and sociological perspectives on intensive motherhood
Rebecca Kukla / Stephanie Knaak
Chair: Frank Furedi
Discussants: Elizabeth Murphy, Sally Sheldon |
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| 6.15-8.15pm |
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Buffet and wine reception |
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Tea and Coffee |
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9 - 11am |
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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
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Tea and Coffee |
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11.15am - 12.45pm |
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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
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12.45 - 2.15pm |
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Lunch / informal discussion on conference outputs |
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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
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Conference close |
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