All Stories

  1. The 1967 Abortion Act fifty years on: Abortion, medical authority and the law revisited
  2. Welfare of the child assessment in IVF clinics
  3. Constructing abortion as a social problem: “Sex selection” and the British abortion debate
  4. Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child
  5. Book Review: Ellie Lee, Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth and Jan Macvarish, Parenting Culture Studies
  6. Book Review: Parenting Culture Studies
  7. ‘Supportive Parenting’, Responsibility and Regulation: The Welfare Assessment under the Reformed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990)
  8. Neuroscience and family policy: What becomes of the parent?
  9. Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child
  10. Growing better brains? Pregnancy and neuroscience discourses in English social and welfare policies
  11. The ‘First Three Years’ Movement and the Infant Brain: A Review of Critiques
  12. Assessing child welfare under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: a case study in medicalisation?
  13. Parenting Culture Studies
  14. Whither abortion policy in Britain?
  15. Breast-Feeding Advocacy, Risk Society and Health Moralism: A Decade’s Scholarship
  16. Is breast best? Taking on the breastfeeding experts and the new high stakes of motherhood
  17. Introduction: ‘Changing Parenting Culture’
  18. Under the Influence? The Construction of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in UK Newspapers
  19. Infant Feeding and the Problems of Policy
  20. Why do women present late for induced abortion?
  21. Advocating alcohol abstinence to pregnant women: Some observations about British policy
  22. Risk, health and parenting culture
  23. Living with risk in the age of ‘intensive motherhood’: Maternal identity and infant feeding
  24. Reasons for Second Trimester Abortions in England and Wales
  25. The ‘Feminisation’ of Health
  26. Infant feeding in risk society
  27. Health, morality, and infant feeding: British mothers’ experiences of formula milk use in the early weeks
  28. Medicalizing motherhood
  29. Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the United States and Great Britain. By Ellie  Lee. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2003. Pp.vii+293. $45.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
  30. Debating late abortion: time to tell the truth
  31. Book Review: Belinda Bennett (ed.), Abortion, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 584 pp., £115, ISBN: 0-7546-2238-X (Hb)
  32. Ellie Lee, Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2003, 292 pp., �30.00, ISBN: 0-2023-0680-1(HB)
  33. Tensions in the Regulation of Abortion in Britain
  34. II. Young People’s Attitudes to Abortion for Abnormality
  35. Abortion Law and Politics Today
  36. Marxism and feminist theory
  37. Conclusion
  38. Experts and Parenting Culture
  39. Introduction
  40. Policing Pregnancy