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Pregnancy and Pregnancy
Planning in the New Parenting Culture
Tuesday June 22nd and
Wednesday June 23rd 2010 at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Organised by Parenting Culture
Studies, in conjunction with Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality and
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas), this seminar will address the
way in which pregnancy is being re-conceptualised at a time when parenthood has
become the object of increasing attention and concern.
Papers will address how anxieties
about parenting are extending backwards into pregnancy and even pre-conception,
with potential parents increasingly being regarded as in need of ‘parent
training’. Discussion will consider the validity and impact of claims that a
healthy baby requires a stress-free pregnancy; the impact of contemporary
parenting culture on reproductive decision-making, in particular, abortion; the
increasing pressure for men to become actively involved not just in baby-care
but in guiding and supporting their partner’s antenatal choices; and the way in
which the new norm of ‘intensive parenthood’ is shaping the regulation of
reproductive technology. One session will also include a comparative discussion
of US and UK controversies surrounding the consumption of drugs and alcohol by
pregnant women. A full set of abstracts and programme are attached.
The programme includes a lecture
by Kristin Luker, Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, on the subject Abortion
and the politics of motherhood revisited. Other contributors to the
programmes are: Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Associate Professor of
Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Cynthia Daniels,
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, Tina Miller, Reader
in Sociology, Oxford Brookes University, Jonathan Ives, Lecturer in
Behavioural Science, Heather Draper, Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Centre
for Biomedical Ethics, The University of Birmingham, Janet Golden,
Professor of History, Rutgers University, Pam Lowe, Lecturer in
Sociology, Aston University, Polly Radcliffe, Research Associate,
University of Kent, Rachel Jones, Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher
Institute, New York, Danielle Bessett, Ph.D., Charlotte Ellertson Social
Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., Evelyn
Mahon, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Work and Social
Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Martin Richards, Emeritus Professor of
Family Research, Cambridge University, Julie McCandless, lecturer in
law, Oxford Brookes University, Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology,
University of Kent, Pat O’Brien, Consultant & Honorary Senior
Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Hospital London and
spokesperson, Royal College of Obstetricians Gynaecologists, Mary Ann
Kanieski, Assistant Professsor, St.Mary’s College, Notre Dame, and Ruth
Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Law, Keele University.
Tickets for both days cost £120.
Day tickets cost £80. Students/unwaged can attend for £25. Please see the
website http://www.parentingculturestudies.org/seminar-series/seminar5/index.html
for booking form
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