Seminars
Consumption and Contested Motherhood Identities
The University of Edinburgh
Friday 15 January 2010
This seminar will give voice to mothers whose experiences are often overlooked and whose identities as "real" or "good" mothers may be contested.
Drawing on research with women who have suffered miscarriages or neonatal death, adoptive mothers, single mothers by choice and lone mothers on low incomes, it will highlight their use of consumption to proclaim their motherhood identities and negotiate their mothering relationships. The presentations will draw on the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and marketing, and the day is structured to allow for dialogue between disciplines and between academic and practitioner participants.