Charlotte Faircloth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105120 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charlotte Faircloth |
| PRENOMES | Charlotte |
| SOBRENOME | Faircloth |
| ASSINATURA | FAIRCLOTH C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2919-2814 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Fifty Years of ‘Becoming a Mother’
Whilst theories of social change are mainstays of the sociological discipline, work on how to actually study the same research question over time is less developed. In this article we discuss some of the methodological, practical and ethical challenges of carrying out a research project over a period of 50 years. The landmark project – 50 Years of Becoming a Mother – examines continuities and changes in women’s transition to first-time motherhood…
Race and neoliberal citizenship in the construction of good (attachment) parents
In this article, we offer one example of what attending to race can bring to sociological analyses of parenting. We draw on literature from two fields, Parenting Culture Studies and Black Feminist scholarship, to bring their insights to bear on a project that examines black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting. In addressing an analytical lacuna in the work on Parenting Culture Studies, we argue that efforts to both embody and produce g…
Thanks For Typing
As well as discussing their recent study exploring how families with children experienced the COVID-19 pandemic which li ted the curtain on gendered dynamics underpinning everyday life, we're getting their take on what it's like to be an 'academic wife' today
Understanding 'Gender Equality
This article explores the ways couples making the transition to parenthood think about, practise, and assess 'gender equality'. The analysis draws on data from two qualitative, longitudinal projects in the UK with 36 mixed-sex couples, grounded in the sociology of intimacy and parenting culture respectively. Both projects explore gender relations at the transition to parenthood, with recent changes in UK parental leave as a backdrop, to interroga…
Covid labour
Drawing on qualitative longitudinal data from 38 families with children in the UK collected between May 2020 and June 2021, this article discusses the extra everyday labour which individuals experienced in going about their daily lives during COVID-19. In particular, we examine in detail the everyday practices of negotiating risk and caring for self and others within the context of the pandemic. We call this COVID labour - the work involved in li…
Militant Lactivism?
Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the natural thing to do': 'evolutionarily appropriate', 'scientifically best' and 'what feels right in their hearts'. Through a theoretical focus on knowle…
Couples’ Transitions to Parenthood
Er, not the best time’
That the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on families and relationships hardly needs reiterating. For the first time in the post-industrialised era, the main institutions of social life (including education, care and work) have largely been pushed into the home, exposing ever further the inequalities (such as gender and generation) around which family life revolves -as well as making clear the huge variation in what the definition of a 'home',…
Couples' Transitions to Parenthood
‘Utterly Heart-Breaking and Devastating’
When equal partners become unequal parents
Based on longitudinal research with (heterosexual) couples in the UK, this article tracks their experiences of becoming parents for the first time. The suggestion is that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable confluence between competing discourses around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. On the one hand, they must be committed to egalitarian ideals about the division of care. On the other, they must be parenting ‘intensi…
Parenting and social solidarity in cross-cultural perspective
Many scholars, particularly in Anglophone countries, have observed that mothers and fathers are now expected to do much more explicit ‘parenting’ than in the past. This article draws on the case studies of Norway and the UK as examples of welfare states with different historical orientations to social coherence, equality and diversity as a means of examining the spread (or otherwise) of these ideologies. In particular, it considers theoretical co…
Adult-child relations in neoliberal times
In this introductory article for the special issue ‘Childhood, Parenting Culture and Adult-Child Relations in Global Perspectives’, we provide an overview of our fields of study (childhood studies and parenting culture studies) by placing them in dialogue. We do so as a basis for drawing out themes emerging from the special issue, in order to explore potential synergies and open broader debates. We begin by tracing moves towards more relational a…
Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives
Breastfeeding
While it is traditionally approached within the anthropological discipline as a question of kinship and relatedness, breastfeeding is increasingly being understood as an important locus for debates around gender, embodiment, and the politics of reproduction more widely. Indeed, with anthropology's unique cross‐cultural perspective, ethnographic findings are ever more tied to global debates around infant feeding, health, social mobility, and inequ…
Parenting
Child rearing—as inherent in the study of kinship—has been at the heart of the anthropological discipline from its inception, whether from an evolutionary or a more social perspective. The term “parenting,” however, is a relatively recent one which became prominent in the 1950s. It was first used by psychologists, sociologists, and self‐help practitioners in North America before spreading into wider usage, both in the United States and elsewhere.…
Fertile Connections
While studies of 'parenting culture' and 'assisted reproductive technologies' are now well-established areas of social science scholarship, so far, the potential connections between the two fields have not been significantly explored. Responding to calls for a more 'processual' approach to studying reproduction in order to make clearer contributions to sociological theory more broadly, we begin a dialogue between these mutually relevant bodies of…
Conceiving contemporary parenthood
This year, as the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first IVF birth – of Louise Brown, born in Oldham, UK in 1978 – we find ourselves in a reproductive milieu that has been dramatically
Introduction - Making Parents
Natural' Breastfeeding in Comparative Perspective
Based on research in London and Paris with mothers from an international breastfeeding support organisation, this paper explores the narratives of women who breastfeed their children 'to full term' (typically for a period of several years) as part of a philosophy of 'attachment parenting'. In line with wider cultural trends (in the UK, at least), one of the most prominent 'accountability strategies' used by this group of mothers to explain their …
Introduction to Special Section Gender, Intimacy, Equality
Gender; Intimacy; Equality; Love
Negotiating Intimacy, Equality and Sexuality in the Transition to Parenthood
Whilst both 'parenting' and 'intimacy' have been explored extensively in recent social scientific research (for example, Lee et al 2014, Gabb and Silva 2011 ), their intersections in the context of family life remain curiously absent. This paper presents findings from on-going longitudinal research with parents in London, which investigates how the care of children, and particularly the feeding of infants, affects the parental couple's 'intimate'…
Parenting
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Parenting Culture Studies
Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of so
Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting
In her introduction to Parenting Out of Control the US sociologist Margaret Nelson describes how childrearing has changed in the last 40 years: When I was raising my children in the 1970s, there were no baby monitors to help me hear them cry in the middle of the night, no cell phones to assist me in keeping track of their whereabouts at every moment, and no expectation that I would know any more about their educational success than they, or a qua…
Fertile Connections
While studies of 'parenting culture' and 'assisted reproductive technologies' are now well-established areas of social science scholarship, so far, the potential connections between the two fields have not been significantly explored. Responding to calls for a more 'processual' approach to studying reproduction in order to make clearer contributions to sociological theory more broadly, we begin a dialogue between these mutually relevant bodies of…
Parenting
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
When equal partners become unequal parents
Based on longitudinal research with (heterosexual) couples in the UK, this article tracks their experiences of becoming parents for the first time. The suggestion is that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable confluence between competing discourses around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. On the one hand, they must be committed to egalitarian ideals about the division of care. On the other, they must be parenting ‘intensi…
Adult-child relations in neoliberal times
In this introductory article for the special issue ‘Childhood, Parenting Culture and Adult-Child Relations in Global Perspectives’, we provide an overview of our fields of study (childhood studies and parenting culture studies) by placing them in dialogue. We do so as a basis for drawing out themes emerging from the special issue, in order to explore potential synergies and open broader debates. We begin by tracing moves towards more relational a…
Introduction
The essays in this special section emerge from the 'Changing Parenting Culture' series of ESRC research seminars, held between January 2009 and June 2011 at a range of UK universities. Run by the network of scholars 'Parenting Culture Studies',[1] the seminars brought together academics working internationally in a range of disciplines, as well as those in policy and practice to examine shifts in parenting culture. Topics discussed included paren…
Mothering as Identity-Work
This article argues for an anthropological engagement with parenting as “identity-work” in a bid to extend parenting studies beyond the more traditional focus on kinship, and also expand what “kinship” might mean to anthropologists. That is, it proposes a deeper exploration of how relatedness is enacted in conjunction with constructions of the self. Attention to identity- work—in this case the narrative processes of self-making that parents engag…
Natural' Breastfeeding in Comparative Perspective
Based on research in London and Paris with mothers from an international breastfeeding support organisation, this paper explores the narratives of women who breastfeed their children 'to full term' (typically for a period of several years) as part of a philosophy of 'attachment parenting'. In line with wider cultural trends (in the UK, at least), one of the most prominent 'accountability strategies' used by this group of mothers to explain their …
Conceiving contemporary parenthood
This year, as the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first IVF birth – of Louise Brown, born in Oldham, UK in 1978 – we find ourselves in a reproductive milieu that has been dramatically
Introduction - Making Parents
What Feels Right
This article explores the place of “feeling” in women's decisions around infant feeding (and specifically long-term breastfeeding). The argument is that policymakers and academics often overlook feeling (or an affective/emotional perspective) in favor of a focus on “informed choice” as a means of understanding and influencing behavior in this area of social life. In exploring the relationship between ideologies and bodily practices, this article …
What Science Says is Best
Based on research in London with mothers from a breastfeeding support organisation this paper explores the narratives of women who breastfeed 'to full term' (typically for a period of several years) as part of a philosophy of 'attachment parenting', an approach to parenting which validates long term proximity between child and care-taker. In line with wider cultural trends, one of the most prominent 'accountability strategies' used by this group …
It Feels Right in My Heart
This article makes a contribution to discussions around 'affect' in the social sciences ( Clough and Halley, 2007 ; Connolly, 1999 ; Massumi, 2002 ). It emerges from a research project involving a network of mothers - in London - who breastfeed their children to 'full term'. Typically, this would be up to the age of three or four, though ranged, in this case, to between one and eight years old. For many women, the most fundamental reasoning in th…
Covid labour
Drawing on qualitative longitudinal data from 38 families with children in the UK collected between May 2020 and June 2021, this article discusses the extra everyday labour which individuals experienced in going about their daily lives during COVID-19. In particular, we examine in detail the everyday practices of negotiating risk and caring for self and others within the context of the pandemic. We call this COVID labour - the work involved in li…
Er, not the best time’
That the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on families and relationships hardly needs reiterating. For the first time in the post-industrialised era, the main institutions of social life (including education, care and work) have largely been pushed into the home, exposing ever further the inequalities (such as gender and generation) around which family life revolves -as well as making clear the huge variation in what the definition of a 'home',…
Parenting and social solidarity in cross-cultural perspective
Many scholars, particularly in Anglophone countries, have observed that mothers and fathers are now expected to do much more explicit ‘parenting’ than in the past. This article draws on the case studies of Norway and the UK as examples of welfare states with different historical orientations to social coherence, equality and diversity as a means of examining the spread (or otherwise) of these ideologies. In particular, it considers theoretical co…
Introduction to Special Section Gender, Intimacy, Equality
Gender; Intimacy; Equality; Love
Negotiating Intimacy, Equality and Sexuality in the Transition to Parenthood
Whilst both 'parenting' and 'intimacy' have been explored extensively in recent social scientific research (for example, Lee et al 2014, Gabb and Silva 2011 ), their intersections in the context of family life remain curiously absent. This paper presents findings from on-going longitudinal research with parents in London, which investigates how the care of children, and particularly the feeding of infants, affects the parental couple's 'intimate'…
Understanding 'Gender Equality
This article explores the ways couples making the transition to parenthood think about, practise, and assess 'gender equality'. The analysis draws on data from two qualitative, longitudinal projects in the UK with 36 mixed-sex couples, grounded in the sociology of intimacy and parenting culture respectively. Both projects explore gender relations at the transition to parenthood, with recent changes in UK parental leave as a backdrop, to interroga…
Mothering as Identity-Work
This article argues for an anthropological engagement with parenting as “identity-work” in a bid to extend parenting studies beyond the more traditional focus on kinship, and also expand what “kinship” might mean to anthropologists. That is, it proposes a deeper exploration of how relatedness is enacted in conjunction with constructions of the self. Attention to identity- work—in this case the narrative processes of self-making that parents engag…
‘If they want to risk the health and well-being of their child, that's up to them’
This article examines the narratives of women who breastfeed their children for ‘extended’ periods of time, as a means of exploring the relationship between risk-consciousness, infant feeding and maternal identity. The paper shows that whilst these women practice a form of infant feeding which is validated by wider policy directives emphasising the risks associated with formula milk use, their ‘identity work’ is not as straightforward as may be e…
Introduction
The essays in this special section emerge from the 'Changing Parenting Culture' series of ESRC research seminars, held between January 2009 and June 2011 at a range of UK universities. Run by the network of scholars 'Parenting Culture Studies',[1] the seminars brought together academics working internationally in a range of disciplines, as well as those in policy and practice to examine shifts in parenting culture. Topics discussed included paren…
What Science Says is Best
Based on research in London with mothers from a breastfeeding support organisation this paper explores the narratives of women who breastfeed 'to full term' (typically for a period of several years) as part of a philosophy of 'attachment parenting', an approach to parenting which validates long term proximity between child and care-taker. In line with wider cultural trends, one of the most prominent 'accountability strategies' used by this group …
It Feels Right in My Heart
This article makes a contribution to discussions around 'affect' in the social sciences ( Clough and Halley, 2007 ; Connolly, 1999 ; Massumi, 2002 ). It emerges from a research project involving a network of mothers - in London - who breastfeed their children to 'full term'. Typically, this would be up to the age of three or four, though ranged, in this case, to between one and eight years old. For many women, the most fundamental reasoning in th…
Parenting in Global Perspective
Foreword Frank Furedi Introduction Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne Part 1: The Moral Context for Parenting 1. 'Where Are the Parents?': Changing Parenting Responsibilities Between the 1960s and the 2010s Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies 2. Building a Stable Environment in Scotland: Planning Parenthood in a Time of Ecological Crisis Katharine Dow 3. Creating Distinction: Middle-Class Viewers of Supernanny in the UK Tracey Jensen…
Militant Lactivism
Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the natural thing to do': 'evolutionarily appropriate', 'scientifically best' and 'what feels right in their hearts'. Through a theoretical focus on knowle…
What Feels Right
This article explores the place of “feeling” in women's decisions around infant feeding (and specifically long-term breastfeeding). The argument is that policymakers and academics often overlook feeling (or an affective/emotional perspective) in favor of a focus on “informed choice” as a means of understanding and influencing behavior in this area of social life. In exploring the relationship between ideologies and bodily practices, this article …
Parenting Culture Studies
Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of so
Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting
In her introduction to Parenting Out of Control the US sociologist Margaret Nelson describes how childrearing has changed in the last 40 years: When I was raising my children in the 1970s, there were no baby monitors to help me hear them cry in the middle of the night, no cell phones to assist me in keeping track of their whereabouts at every moment, and no expectation that I would know any more about their educational success than they, or a qua…
Introduction to Special Section Gender, Intimacy, Equality
Gender; Intimacy; Equality; Love
Negotiating Intimacy, Equality and Sexuality in the Transition to Parenthood
Whilst both 'parenting' and 'intimacy' have been explored extensively in recent social scientific research (for example, Lee et al 2014, Gabb and Silva 2011 ), their intersections in the context of family life remain curiously absent. This paper presents findings from on-going longitudinal research with parents in London, which investigates how the care of children, and particularly the feeding of infants, affects the parental couple's 'intimate'…
Parenting
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Introduction - Making Parents
Natural' Breastfeeding in Comparative Perspective
Based on research in London and Paris with mothers from an international breastfeeding support organisation, this paper explores the narratives of women who breastfeed their children 'to full term' (typically for a period of several years) as part of a philosophy of 'attachment parenting'. In line with wider cultural trends (in the UK, at least), one of the most prominent 'accountability strategies' used by this group of mothers to explain their …
Breastfeeding
While it is traditionally approached within the anthropological discipline as a question of kinship and relatedness, breastfeeding is increasingly being understood as an important locus for debates around gender, embodiment, and the politics of reproduction more widely. Indeed, with anthropology's unique cross‐cultural perspective, ethnographic findings are ever more tied to global debates around infant feeding, health, social mobility, and inequ…
Parenting
Child rearing—as inherent in the study of kinship—has been at the heart of the anthropological discipline from its inception, whether from an evolutionary or a more social perspective. The term “parenting,” however, is a relatively recent one which became prominent in the 1950s. It was first used by psychologists, sociologists, and self‐help practitioners in North America before spreading into wider usage, both in the United States and elsewhere.…
Fertile Connections
While studies of 'parenting culture' and 'assisted reproductive technologies' are now well-established areas of social science scholarship, so far, the potential connections between the two fields have not been significantly explored. Responding to calls for a more 'processual' approach to studying reproduction in order to make clearer contributions to sociological theory more broadly, we begin a dialogue between these mutually relevant bodies of…
Conceiving contemporary parenthood
This year, as the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first IVF birth – of Louise Brown, born in Oldham, UK in 1978 – we find ourselves in a reproductive milieu that has been dramatically
‘Utterly Heart-Breaking and Devastating’
When equal partners become unequal parents
Based on longitudinal research with (heterosexual) couples in the UK, this article tracks their experiences of becoming parents for the first time. The suggestion is that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable confluence between competing discourses around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. On the one hand, they must be committed to egalitarian ideals about the division of care. On the other, they must be parenting ‘intensi…
Parenting and social solidarity in cross-cultural perspective
Many scholars, particularly in Anglophone countries, have observed that mothers and fathers are now expected to do much more explicit ‘parenting’ than in the past. This article draws on the case studies of Norway and the UK as examples of welfare states with different historical orientations to social coherence, equality and diversity as a means of examining the spread (or otherwise) of these ideologies. In particular, it considers theoretical co…
Adult-child relations in neoliberal times
In this introductory article for the special issue ‘Childhood, Parenting Culture and Adult-Child Relations in Global Perspectives’, we provide an overview of our fields of study (childhood studies and parenting culture studies) by placing them in dialogue. We do so as a basis for drawing out themes emerging from the special issue, in order to explore potential synergies and open broader debates. We begin by tracing moves towards more relational a…
Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives
Couples’ Transitions to Parenthood
Sociology (25 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Gender Studies (17 obras) · Developmental psychology (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (8 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras)