Ed Res Seminar Series - Refusal, obfuscation and academic motherhood
Wednesday 16 November 2022, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Venue
Online (Zoom)Open to
All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Families and young people, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
Free to attend - registration requiredRegistration Info
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Event Details
This presentation reflects on the sociological implications of ‘care-full obfuscations’.
Identified during interviews with 38 UK-based academics on the topic of parenthood/desired parenthood, care-full obfuscation refers to the impulse – felt disproportionately by the women in the project – to obscure, underplay or deny the impact of caring responsibilities or desires on one’s ability to complete academic tasks. While the gendered ‘stickyness’ (Henderson, 2020) of care work has raised questions regarding the (in)compatibility of academic work and motherhood, I argue obfuscation is a form of political agency that pushes against both the construct of the productive and available academic, and the image of the selfless and wholly responsible ‘intensive’ (Hays, 1996) mother.
Speaker
Mollie Etheridge
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Mollie Etheridge is a Research Assistant in the Research Strategy Office at the University of Cambridge. She is writing up her PhD in Education (Cambridge), which explores how the onto-epistemological histories of academic culture inform contemporary academics’ experiences of (desired) parenthood.
Contact Details
| Name | Dee Daglish |