Maternage et politiques d’intervention précoce au Royaume-Un: biologisation et reproduction des inégalités de genre, de classe et de race
Maternage et politiques d’intervention précoce au Royaume-Un: biologisation et reproduction des inégalités de genre, de classe et de race
This article shows how the use of neurosciences in the concepts and practices of earlyintervention in young children reproduces inequalities through two main processes : conferring aprotective role on disadvantaged mothers (buffer effect), presumed to overcome the effects of anenvironment that is generally detrimental to their children, and expunging social divisions, while atthe same time integrating a set of inequalities. A certain conception of attachment theorysupported by that developed by John Bowlby in the years 1930– 1940 perpetuates genderinequalities by introducing a culture of ‘ intensive parenting’, associated with a discourse on braindevelopment. Class distinctions are also strengthened by early intervention and the conceptsderived from the neurosciences that present poor mothers and children as biologically andculturally different people. In parallel, early intervention tends to transmit inequalities linked toethnicity through Eurocentric conceptions of ideal educational roles and practices.
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Edwards, Rosalind
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Gillies, Val
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2020
Edwards, Rosalind
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Gillies, Val
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Edwards, Rosalind and Gillies, Val
(2020)
Maternage et politiques d’intervention précoce au Royaume-Un: biologisation et reproduction des inégalités de genre, de classe et de race.
Revue de politiques sociales et familiales, 135 (2), .
Abstract
This article shows how the use of neurosciences in the concepts and practices of earlyintervention in young children reproduces inequalities through two main processes : conferring aprotective role on disadvantaged mothers (buffer effect), presumed to overcome the effects of anenvironment that is generally detrimental to their children, and expunging social divisions, while atthe same time integrating a set of inequalities. A certain conception of attachment theorysupported by that developed by John Bowlby in the years 1930– 1940 perpetuates genderinequalities by introducing a culture of ‘ intensive parenting’, associated with a discourse on braindevelopment. Class distinctions are also strengthened by early intervention and the conceptsderived from the neurosciences that present poor mothers and children as biologically andculturally different people. In parallel, early intervention tends to transmit inequalities linked toethnicity through Eurocentric conceptions of ideal educational roles and practices.
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 November 2020
Published date: 2020
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Mothering and early intervention policies in the United Kingdom: biologizing and reproduction of gender, class, and race inequalities
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478638
ISSN: 2490-7944
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