Birkbeck, University of London

Studies in the Maternal

Volume 4, Issue 2, 2012

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Special Issue: Austerity Parenting

Editorial:

  • Tracey Jensen and Imogen Tyler Austerity Parenting: new economies of parent-citizenship

Papers:

  • Tracey Jensen Tough Love in Tough Times
  • Cliona Barnes and Martin Power Internalising discourses of parenting blame: Voices from the Field

Jackman Chiu, 2011, Toronto, Canada

  • Esther Dermott Poverty Vs Parenting: an emergent dichotomy
  • Kim Akass The Gendered Politics of a Global Recession: a news media analysis
  • Kim Allen and Yvette Taylor Placed Parenting, locating unrest: failed femininities, troubled mothers and rioting subjects
  • Sara de Benedictis Feral Parents: austerity parenting under neoliberalism

In Conversation:

  • Michael Roper speaks to Shaul Bar-Haim

Book and Exhibition Reviews:

  • Tracey Jensen Danny Dorling, Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists
  • Lisa Baraitser Rachel Thomson, Mary Jane Kehily, Lucy Hadfield, and Sue Sharpe, Making Modern Mothers
  • Stella Sandford Alison Stone, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
  • Patrice DiQuinzio Julie Stephens, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care
  • Rebecca Baillie 'Modern Madonnas' - 13 Artists respond to the 'Mother and Child' theme