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Parenting Culture Studies
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July 2008 Advice to Mothers Workshop, Warwick University, Friday 20 June 2008 June 2008 Modern Motherhood Conference, London, Wednesday 2 July 2008 Organised by the Family and Parenting Institute and the Open University Report by Dr Jan Macvarish, CHSS, University of Kent, Canterbury January 2008 Charlotte Faircloth organised a very successful event at Cambridge University in December 2007. Based around discussion of the Channel 4 programme 'Bringing Up Baby', participants explored a wide variety of issues about parenting culture today. See http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/baby.html for more details of the event. The following article was written by one of the speakers, historian Christina Hardyment: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3090331.ece This is from the Times on-line Alphamummy blog: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article3190169.ece This article by Frank Furedi about the controversy generated by 'Bringing up Baby' will also be of interest: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article2615136.ece January 2008 Written by sociologist Stuart Waiton this book is of particular interest for anyone exploring the growing 'politics of behaviour'. Key to Waiton's argument is that politics and indeed the operation of the state has fundamentally changed in the past decade, increasingly becoming focused upon the micro-management of everyday life - on families and individual relationships. The link between the decline of traditional morality and the rise of managing people's behaviour is here explored through the idea of amoral panics. A PDF order form is available here.
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