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  1. The Social Politics of Breastfeeding: Norms, Situations and Policy Implications.Lisa Smyth - 2012 - Ethics and Social Welfare 6 (2):182-194.
    This paper explores the social and emotional consequences of three major assumptions about human action underpinning breastfeeding promotion campaigns in the UK. Drawing on Joas's critique of instrumental accounts of rational action, the paper illustrates the ways in which these campaigns firstly contribute to the moralisation of motherhood; secondly value highly individualised, de-contextualised forms of action; and thirdly promote an objectified view of the human body as a pliable instrument of human intentions. The consequences of these assumptions, as they shape (...)
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  • Roadworks: British Bangladeshi mothers, temporality and intimate citizenship in East London.Yasmin Gunaratnam - 2013 - European Journal of Women's Studies 20 (3):249-263.
    Narratives of street life from British Bangladeshi Muslim mothers, collected in the aftermath of the suicide bombings in London in 2005, are the focus of this article. The author examines how temporal schemas that combine the unpredictable time of racist events with a rendering of a foreseeable linear temporality of racism and of intergenerational identifications in the future provide the women with a means of living with ontological insecurity and threat. Although this reproduction of linear time can appear to exclude (...)
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