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(24-05-2008) Exploring Mothers: Discourses, Representations, Practices
A Conference Convened by
The Board of Women’s Studies UCC
with
The Association for Research on Mothering in Ireland (ARMI) in conjunction with
May 24, 2008
University College Cork
Exploring Mothers: Discourses, Representations and Practices of Mothering
May 24, 2008
University College Cork
9.30pm – 10.00 pm - Registration
Welcome 10.00 10.05
10.05-10.45 Tina Miller –Keynote: Exploring Mothers: Overlap and Diversity in Caring, Loving and Ambivalent Mothering Relationships
10.45-11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 1.00 pm Parallel Sessions:
1. Supporting Mothering - O’Rahilly Building Room 156
Ellen Brady, UCD
Exploring Mothers: Representations and Practices of Mothering
Andrew Duggan, University of Huddersfield
Challenging Mother Blame: Narrative Conversations With Mothers
Adele Jones, University of Huddersfield
Letter to a Social Worker: Reflections on Adoption and Mothering – A Black Woman’s Perspective
Fionnuala O’Fiannachta
Supporting Mothering: A Personal Perspective
2. Constructing Mothers - O’Rahilly Building Room 132
Máire Leane, UCC
Understanding Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood in Contemporary
Ireland: the Potential of a Feminist Approach.
Noelia Igareda, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Motherhood as a Subject of Law
Angela O’Connell, UCG
Investigating Ideals of Motherhood from a Lesbian Feminist Standpoint
The VOICE Group: Susi Geiger (UCD), Lisa O’Malley (UL), Andrea Prothero (UCD)
The Mother of Consumerism: Why We Feel Our Newborn Will Only Be Happy in a €1000 Buggyl
1pm – 2 pm Lunch
2.00pm-4.00pm - Afternoon Session
3. Mothering and Employment - O’Rahilly Building Room 156
Maria Quinlan, TCD
The Impact of Motherhood on Workforce Participation: Has So Called ‘Choice Feminism’ Failed Mothers In The Workplace?
Patricia Lyne, UCC
Women What Are You Waiting For? An Exploratory Study of Why Women Had Their First Child After The Age of Thirty in Ireland Between 1996 and 2006
Clare O’Hagan, UL
Irish Feminism, ‘Working Mothers’ and Reflexive Moral Reasoning
Meabh Smith
To Work or Not to Work: Sin an Cheist!
4.00 pm – 4.15 pm COFFEE
- 4. Plenary Session - O’Rahilly Building Room 156
Supported by Women’s Studies, and the College of Arts,
Celtic Studies & Social Sciences, UCC