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Gender, Equality and Intimacy: (un) comfortable bedfellows?
1-day workshop at the Institute of Education, London, 7th April 2014
The topics of gender, equality and intimacy are becoming increasingly established as important subjects of investigation in the social sciences. Much of this literature points to their intersections in the context of personal life (Gabb 2010, Jamieson 1998, Smart 2007) and the clash between ‘ideal’ relationships promoted by policy and expert or self-help literature and the actual pragmatics of daily life (Gillies 2009, Jensen and Tylor 2013). For example, while there is a commitment to encouraging ‘gender equality’ in working cultures and family life in contemporary UK policy, wider cultures of parenting rely on heavily gendered models of appropriate care (Dermot 2008, Faircloth 2013). This workshop seeks to explore further how such intersections of equality and intimacy are experienced by men, women and families, whether as part of a wider ‘therapeutic turn’ in the ethics of self-knowledge (Furedi 2004, Hochschild 2003, Illouz 2007) or as part of a modernisation project in the context of nation building (Twamley 2012).
The workshop will showcase cutting edge research from junior and mid-level academics with more senior scholars in the field acting as discussants. Confirmed discussants include Dr Meg Barker, Dr Esther Dermott, Professor Andrea Doucet, Dr Jacqui Gabb, Professor Ros Gill, Professor Lynn Jamieson, Professor Yvette Taylor and Professor Jeffrey Weeks.
A provisional programme for the event, and information about booking tickets can be found here<http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/pcs-events/forthcoming-events/>. Places are limited and will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis.
Dr Charlotte Faircloth
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies<https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/>, University of Kent
Visiting Scholar, Families and Social Capital Research Group<http://weekscentreforsocialandpolicyresearch.wordpress.com>, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, LSBU
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Militant Lactivism? Attachment parenting and intensive motherhood in the UK and France<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=FairclothMilitant>
Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating ideologies of kinship, self and politics <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624879/>
Parenting Culture Studies (out 2014)<http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=9781137304636>
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