I am mailing to let you know about a forthcoming event, 'Monitoring Parents:
Childrearing in the age of 'intensive parenting''. I have attached a Call
for Papers that outlines the main areas we hope to consider at the event.
Please do submit an abstract if you'd like to present at the event about
your own research (we would be delighted to receive proposals from Europena
scholars) or let me know if you'd like to attend (I can then send on further
details about registration in due course). The event is being held on Monday
21 and Tuesday 22 May 2007 at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. If
you want to submit an abstract, we'd be grateful if could do so by December
1st 2006.
The following have already confirmed they will be speaking at the event:
Dr Susan Douglas, Professor of Communication Studies at the University of
Michigan. Co-author of The Mommy Myth
Dr Sarah Earle, Lecturer in Health and Social Care, The Open University.
Author of 'Factors affecting the initiation of breastfeeding: implications
for breastfeeding promotion'; 'Why some women do not breast feed: bottle
feeding and father's role'; '"Planned" and "unplanned" pregnancy:
deconstructing experiences of conception'
Dr Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent. Author of
Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear
Stephanie Knaak, University of Alberta. Author of 'Breast-feeding,
bottle-feeding and Dr. Spock: The shifting context of choice'.
Dr Rebecca Kukla, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University at
Ottawa. Author of Mass Hysteria, Medicine, Culture and Women's Bodies
Dr Ellie Lee, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Kent. Author
of Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the
United States and Great Britain
Ellie Lee, University of Kent
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