Chapter 2 “Watching What I’m Doing, Watching How I’m doing It”: Exploring the Everyday Experiences of Surveillance and Silenced Voices Among Marginalized Mothers in Welsh Low-Income Locales

Mannay, Dawn; Creaghan, Jordon; Gallagher, Dunla; Mason, Sherelle; Morgan, Melanie; Grant, Aimee

doi:10.1108/s1529-212620180000025002

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“…2011, Mannay et al . 2018a, 2018b). This reversal of power through using participant‐generated prompts also enabled us to avoid beginning conversations with direct questioning which might have been perceived as confrontational or reminiscent of approaches used by authorities (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, there was an epistemological synergy between our focus on everyday life as a young mother and photo elicitation methods; as Mannay et al . 2018a, 2018b, 761) argue, visual methods enable an ‘in‐depth understanding of the banal everyday elements of participants’.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To address this tension, at the beginning of the first project, we organised introductory briefing sessions at each of the gatekeeper organisations to discuss the project in detail with a particular emphasis on what exactly participants were agreeing to and the range of potential spaces where their visual data might be shared (see Mannay et al . 2018a, 2018b, 104). In addition, we took an ‘ongoing consent’ approach meaning that, although written consent was obtained at the start of the research, we revisited this consent regularly by checking with participants that they were willing to continue their involvement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Brown 2016, Ellis‐Sloan 2014, Mannay et al . 2018a, 2018b, Moore and Reynolds 2017) and marginalised mothers’ infant feeding experiences more generally (Gillies 2007, Grant et al . 2018, Mannay et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2018, Mannay et al . 2018a, 2018b). Experiences of breastfeeding as a key aspect and decision in young mother’s reproductive lives are comparatively absent.…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘I just don’t think it’s that natural’: adolescent mothers’ constructions of breastfeeding as deviant

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Sociology Health & Illness

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Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula-feed are open to charges of maternal deviance and must account for their behaviour. We suggest that this moral superiority of breastfeeding is tenuous for mothers from marginalised contexts and competes with discourses which locate breastfeeding, rather than formula feeding, as maternal deviance. We draw on focus group and interview data from 27 adolescent mothers from socioeconomically deprived neighbourhoods in three areas of the UK, and five early years professionals working at a Children's Centre in the Northeast of England. We argue that breastfeeding is constructed as deviance at three 'levels' as (i) a deviation from broad social norms about women's bodies, (ii) a deviation from local mothering behaviours and (iii) a transgression within micro-level interpersonal and familial relationships. Given this positioning of breastfeeding as deviant, breastfeeding mothers feel obliged to account for their deviance. In making this argument, we extend and rework Murphy's (1999) framework to encompass diverse experiences of infant feeding. We conclude with reflections on future research directions and potential implications for practice.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2018, Mannay et al . 2018a, 2018b). Experiences of breastfeeding as a key aspect and decision in young mother’s reproductive lives are comparatively absent.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample

Parsons

Fitzsimons

Schoon

2023

British Educational Res J

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There is persistent evidence showing that care leavers tend to have lower educational outcomes compared to their peers. There is, however, less knowledge of whether this educational disadvantage transfers to the second generation. This study adopts a developmental contextual life‐course approach to examine: (a) the extent of educational inequality of children of care leavers from school entry to public examinations at age 16; (b) the relative role of different psychosocial family resources as predictors of educational attainment; and (c) the role of early school readiness assessments as predictors of later educational attainment. Drawing on data collected from families living in England at the first sweep of the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) (n = 11,514), the findings suggest intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage among children of care leavers (n = 287), which is manifest in a direct assessment of school readiness (age 3), at the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (age 5) and in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) attainment (age 16). However, once inequalities in family socio‐economic background or area deprivation and housing are controlled for, children of care leavers perform comparably in their educational progression to those whose mothers had no experience of being in care (n = 11,227). Moreover, the findings highlight the significance of early school readiness assessments in predicting later educational attainment for the whole sample. Findings are discussed regarding their implications for policy, in particular the need to address educational inequality for children in care, area allocation and housing that is offered to care leavers, and the general importance of early interventions.

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‘You Feel Like You’re Throwing Your Life Away Just to Make It Look Clean’: Insights into Women’s Everyday Management of Hearth and Home in Wales

Folkes,

Mannay

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology

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Chapter 2 “Watching What I’m Doing, Watching How I’m doing It”: Exploring the Everyday Experiences of Surveillance and Silenced Voices Among Marginalized Mothers in Welsh Low-Income Locales

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

‘I just don’t think it’s that natural’: adolescent mothers’ constructions of breastfeeding as deviant

‘I just don’t think it’s that natural’: adolescent mothers’ constructions of breastfeeding as deviant

Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample

‘You Feel Like You’re Throwing Your Life Away Just to Make It Look Clean’: Insights into Women’s Everyday Management of Hearth and Home in Wales

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