This week's things are both scheduling tools: Doodle (Thing 5) and Google Calendar (Thing 6). I started off with Thing 6 on the grounds that it only … more
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motherhood
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A history of baby-eating mothers
@ 2010-05-09 – 20:51:45
The first IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminar of the Spring term was by Dennis Stathakopoulos on the dramatic sounding topic of ‘Mothers and cannibalism … more -
The de-skilling and re-skilling of domesticity
@ 2010-04-05 – 09:45:50
This post grows out of comments on a previous post, where I got into a discussion with Sue about whether women could be fulfilled in a patriarchal system. … more -
Buying advantage for toddlers for £3 a day
@ 2010-01-30 – 21:51:50
The recent report by the National Equality Panel on An Anatomy of Economic Equality in the UK is chock-full of data, but the bit I find myself drawn … more -
Outcomes of stigmatising unmarried mothers
@ 2009-02-21 – 08:28:04
[ ... ] make unmarried motherhood shameful: would it have the results that the social conservatives want? First of all, stigmatising unmarried ... more -
Dead academic walking
@ 2008-12-16 – 20:54:33
I started writing this post near the end of April. The fact that it’s taken me nearly a year to finish it isn’t due to writer’s block in any normal sense. … more -
Parents and politics
@ 2008-09-25 – 11:15:32
The resignation of Ruth Kelly from the Cabinet to spend more time with her family brought back thoughts I’d been having after the selection of Sarah … more -
Preparing five year-olds for Oxbridge
@ 2008-08-19 – 22:23:01
The comments on a recent post at A Corner of Tenth Century Europe have morphed into a discussion on admissions to Oxbridge and whether or not candidates … more -
Academic theory for the very young
@ 2008-04-25 – 13:20:25
A number of my academic books are stored in L’s bedroom, both because they were there first and because there’s nowhere else to put then. As she learns … more -
School choice and morality
@ 2008-04-04 – 09:48:05
Choosing the education for your child is obviously a pedagogic matter and also sometimes an economic one. But it's also often a moral matter, as well, … more
