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Dear all,
In a fortnight's time, we will be having our second Centre for Parenting Culture Studies forum of the term, at the University of Kent:
Birth Place Decisions: how women and their partners make sense of risk and uncertainty when planning where to give birth.
Dr. Kirstie Coxon, Kingʼs College London
Wednesday, 21st March 2012, 4-6pm Cornwallis NW sr10
This paper presents findings from a PhD study which explored women’s and birth partners’ experience of making birth place decisions. Longitudinal narrative interviews were conducted with 41 women and 16 birth partners during pregnancy and after birth. Beliefs about birth place risk often originated in familial upbringing and were reinforced by cultural discourses of risk and responsibility during transition to parenthood. Surprisingly, the overall tendency was for women to be increasingly conservative about their birth place options in subsequent pregnancies. This runs contrary to the assumption that women are more proactive in relation to labour and birth as their ‘childbearing careers’ progress, and the implications of this study are considered in relation to existing sociocultural research into birth place decisions
These twice-termly events are designed as a space for colleagues in and around Kent to come together to discuss parenting culture. We hope that they will foster some interesting cross-disciplinary conversation, and lead to collaborative events in the future. All are welcome.
Please get in touch with the convenor (Charlotte Faircloth, [log in to unmask]) if you would be interested in presenting next term, or if you have any further queries.
Dr. Charlotte Faircloth
Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellow
a: SSPSSR, Cornwallis NE, University of Kent, Canterbury UK, CT2 7NF
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w: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/
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