{"id":4513,"date":"2025-07-31T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/?page_id=4513"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:04:29","slug":"policing-pregnancy-who-should-be-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/previous-events\/policing-pregnancy-events\/policing-pregnancy-who-should-be-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Policing Pregnancy: Who should be a mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one-day event, held at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) was a collaboration by British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS), Birthrights, and Engaging Sociology at CCCU.<\/p>\n<p>The programme included speakers from a range of academic disciplines \u2013 Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law, Philosophy, and Social Work \u2013 and from Third Sector organisations working with pregnant women. Sessions explored changing ideas about pregnancy, motherhood, responsibility and risk, and the impact of these ideas on women\u2019s experience and professional services.<\/p>\n<p>Films:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E3byVzLC8vw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Session 1: \u2018Ideal pregnancies\u2019 and the new family planning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1HELABu4K_Q\">Session 2: Bad bodies, bad choices? Behavioural advice and the pregnant woman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JY6VbjZ57jM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Session 3: Pregnancy surveillance and the medical profession<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EzNi18_FhCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Session 4: Breastfeeding, guilt, and ideals of good motherhood<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Policing Pregnancy: Who should be a mother? builds on a previous, successful collaboration between BPAS, CPCS and Birthrights in April 2016. Held at the Royal College of Physicians in London, this attracted an audience of over 100 healthcare practitioners and academics, and national media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/pcs-events\/previous-events\/policing-pregnancy\/\">2016 \u2018Policing Pregnancy\u2019 conference<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one-day event, held at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) was a collaboration by British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS), Birthrights, and Engaging Sociology at CCCU. The programme included speakers from a range of academic disciplines \u2013 Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law, Philosophy, and Social Work \u2013 and from Third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":0,"parent":3393,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4513\/revisions\/4565"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}