 | Tracey Jensen is a doctoral student at the Open University, where she is currently working on her PhD, and editorial assistant for the e-journal Studies in the Maternal. Her research explores the intersections of class and gender in contemporary parenting cultures across a range of sites, with a specific focus upon the relationship between parenting expertise on television and government parenting policy. She is a mum of one and an avid, though ambivalent, watcher of Supernanny. |
Sunday 1 November 2009, 3.45pm Café
Standing up to Supernanny: why we need a Parents' Liberation Movement
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
