30/09/2026
One week from today; Join us for this online CPCS Autumn term seminar on the theme of Engaging Intensive Motherhood, featuring two speakers:
Kate Hague, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UCL
Mothercraft: Taught and (Re)Made
While historically associated with the teaching of parenting skills, this interdisciplinary research reclaims mothercraft as both craft and craftiness. In other words, mothercraft is not only the formalised instruction of how to mother, but the everyday ingenuity through which care is adapted, improvised, and made to work under constraint. As a first foray into a larger project, this presentation maps the conceptual terrain of mothercraft, opening space for more flexible and plural understandings of parenting expertise, maternal knowledge and care.
Daisy Skirton, Associate Lecturer, UWE
Intensive Motherhood and Food Poverty: Classed Maternal Identities and Food Work
The research is an examination of the food work undertaken by working class mothers who attend a food club, a form of food charity provision, in Bristol. It looks at how the material realities of food poverty run into conflict with the imperatives of an intensive, classed parenting culture and how that shapes experiences of stigma and the identity work of working class mothers managing food poverty.
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Join us for a discussion with two early career colleagues about their work-in-progress into motherhood
