(M)othering and the politics of early intervention:: biologisation and the reproduction of gendered, classed and raced inequalities
(M)othering and the politics of early intervention:: biologisation and the reproduction of gendered, classed and raced inequalities
In this chapter we show how the use of brain science in early years intervention ideas and practices reproduces inequalities through two processes: (i) it positions mothers as buffers who can mitigate against and overcome the effects of a harsh wider environment for their children; and (ii) it asserts the effacement of social divisions at the same time as it embeds a range of inequalities.
Mothering, early intervention, biologisation, gender, class, race, inequalities
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Edwards, Rosalind
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Gillies, Val
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Portier-Le Cocq, Fabienne
4 September 2019
Edwards, Rosalind
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Gillies, Val
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Portier-Le Cocq, Fabienne
Edwards, Rosalind and Gillies, Val
(2019)
(M)othering and the politics of early intervention:: biologisation and the reproduction of gendered, classed and raced inequalities.
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Portier-Le Cocq, Fabienne
(ed.)
Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective: Continuity and Change.
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In this chapter we show how the use of brain science in early years intervention ideas and practices reproduces inequalities through two processes: (i) it positions mothers as buffers who can mitigate against and overcome the effects of a harsh wider environment for their children; and (ii) it asserts the effacement of social divisions at the same time as it embeds a range of inequalities.
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Published date: 4 September 2019
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Mothering, early intervention, biologisation, gender, class, race, inequalities
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Val Gillies
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Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
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