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Seminar 5Pregnancy and pregnancy planning in the new parenting culture Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd June 2010 School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury Organiser: Jan Macvarish, Research Associate, Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent The event costs £120 for both days and £80 for one day. There are £25 places available for student/ unwaged. For a booking form or with queries, please email Sarah Slowe |
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Day 1. Tuesday, 22 June 2010 10-10.30 Coffee/registration 10.30-11 Welcome and introduction to the event Ellie Lee, co-ordinator Parenting Culture Studies 11-1pm Session 1: Extending parenting backwards? Pregnancy and pre-pregnancy in contemporary context Chair: Jan Macvarish, Research Associate, CHSS, University of Kent Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, ‘Do happier pregnancies make healthier babies? Stress and the medicalization of maternal emotion’ Cynthia Daniels, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, Discussants: Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology University of Kent and Janet Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University 1-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4 Session 2: Fatherhood and parenting culture Chair: Sally Sheldon, Professor of Law, University of Kent Tina Miller, Reader in Sociology, Oxford Brookes University, ‘Men and ‘bonding’: fathers’ expectations in the antenatal period’ Jonathan Ives, Lecturer in Behavioural Science and Heather Draper, Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, The University of Birmingham, ‘Should we strive to involve men in a meaningful way during pregnancy? Rethinking men’s involvement in antenatal care’ Discussant: Mary Ann Kanieski, Assistant Professor of Sociology, St.Mary’s College, Notre Dame 4-4.30 Coffee 4.30-6.30 Session 3: Pregnancy, drugs and alcohol in contemporary parenting culture Chair: Andy Alaszewski, editor Health, Risk and Society Janet Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University Alcohol, pregnancy and harm-reduction: a review of the American experience Pam Lowe, Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University Under the influence? The construction of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in the UK Polly Radcliffe, Research Associate, University of Kent Substance misusing women and pregnancy. Problematised mothers and the management of spoiled identities Discussants: Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University and Pat O’Brien, Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology University College Hospital London and spokesperson, RCOG 6.30 Drinks, followed by dinner.
Day 2: Wednesday, 23 June 2010 8.45-9.15 Coffee 9.15-11.15 Session 4: Motherhood, abortion and parenting culture Chair: Ann Furedi, CEO bpas Rachel Jones, Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute, New York, ‘Abortion decision making in a culture of ‘intensive motherhood’’ Danielle Bessett, PhD, Charlotte Ellertson Social Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA, USA, ‘Pregnancy after Abortion: women’s experiences of a stigmatized reproductive career’ Evelyn Mahon, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Is there ever a good time to have a child?’ 11.15-11.45 Coffee 11.45-1.15 Session 5: Abortion and the politics of motherhood Chair: Ann Furedi, CEO bpas Professor Kristin Luker, Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, ‘Abortion and the politics of motherhood revisited’ Discussant: Ruth Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Law, Keele University 1.15-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4.15 Session 6: Reproductive technology in an age of intensive parenthood Chair: Emily Jackson, Professor of Law, LSE Martin Richards, Emeritus Professor of Family Research, Cambridge University, ‘Choice or eugenics? Present practice and future developments in the culture of choice’ Julie McCandless, lecturer in law, Oxford Brookes University, ‘What is ‘supportive parenting’? The new ‘Welfare of the Child’ clause in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2008)’ 4.15 Closing remarks |
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