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SUMMARY:Intensive Parenting Alone: Negotiating the Cultural Contradictions
  of Motherhood as a Single Mother by Choice - Professor Linda Layne (Visit
 ing Fellow\, Centre for Family Research\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20120228T130000Z
DTEND:20120228T140000Z
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CONTACT:Naomi White
DESCRIPTION:In her book\, _The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood_ (199
 8)\, sociologist Sharon Haysargues that working mothers in United States a
 re faced with the challenge of being nurturing and unselfish while engaged
 \nin child rearing at home\, and being competitive and ambitious at work. 
 Hays maintains that the ideology of "intensive mothering" exacerbates this
  tension. Working mothers in the 1990s face the challenge of being\nboth n
 urturing and unselfish at home while engaged in child rearing\, and compet
 itive and ambitious at work. This text argues that an ideology of "intensi
 ve mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tension working moth
 ers face. Communication scholars\, Annis Golden and Cheryl Geisler (2006\,
  2007) also address the tension between work and family\nlife and the "ide
 ological dilemma" that flexible work arrangements pose for American knowle
 dge workers (regardless of their gender). In this paper I use a case study
  approach to further explore these and other\ncultural contradictions. Dra
 wing on structured interviews\, participant observation\, and an activity 
 analysis of one week of digital personal\nrecords (phone and email logs\, 
 daily planner\, electronic bill pay\, and time/dated photographs)\,  I des
 cribe how one American knowledge worker practically and discursively manag
 es the demands of intensive parenting as an intentionally single mother.\n
 \nIn prep:  What's new about 'parenting'? Comparative studies in kinship\,
  self and politics. Charlotte Faircloth\, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne\, 
 eds.
LOCATION:Room 606\, Centre for Family Research
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