Filipa Antunes

Lecturer in HumanitiesUniversity of East Anglia

https://people.uea.ac.uk/a_antunes

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Guilty mothers and innocent children

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Filipa Antunes University of East Anglia

September 18, 2019
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Guilty mothers and innocent children childhood motherhood attachment mother's guilt innocence The dynamics of modern parent—child relationships are often discussed, especially in relation to expectations of motherhood. But, although these debates tak ...

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Re: Reassurance, fearmongering or cautionary tales: what television teaches young women about motherhood

Very interesting findings;

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University of East Anglia

Monday, September 16, 2019 — 10:09 am
Very interesting findings; thanks for sharing, Rebecca. I'm intrigued by how negative responses are around the idea of the nuclear family, especially the assumptions that single/divorced motherhood is such a likely outcome it needs advance preparatio ...
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Re: Guilty mothers and innocent children

Thanks for your thought,

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University of East Anglia

Thursday, September 19, 2019 — 3:19 pm
Thanks for your thought, Berit. I'm glad you mentioned Hays' work; her book is an excellent analysis of the start of the intensive attachment-style parenting movement. There's some other work which develops her conclusions further, most of ...
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Re: From Understanding Mother to Hero Father: the Story of Ferdinand the Bull

I haven't seen this

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University of East Anglia

Friday, September 20, 2019 — 12:18 pm
I haven't seen this adaptation, but this is an interesting way of reading Disney's choices about (not) representing mothers. Do you think they were trying to reach fathers specifically, or promoting a new version of masculinity to young boys (an ...