Please join the virtual book launch for Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting: A Black Feminist Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada by Patricia Hamilton. The book launch will take place on February 24, 2021 at 1:30 pm PT (4:30 pm EST) on Zoom and is hosted by Dr Sinikka Elliott and Dr Patricia Hamilton. Dr Hamilton will read from the book and take audience questions. All attendees receive a discount on the book from the publisher.
Patricia Hamilton‘s book Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting is the result of 19 interviews with black mothers living in the UK and Canada. The book examines attachment parenting (AP), a new parenting philosophy that emphasises breastfeeding, babywearing and bedsharing as key techniques to achieve a secure attachment between parent and child. Most commonly associated with American paediatrician William Sears, attachment parenting advocates claim that the philosophy is inspired by the practices of parents in ‘traditional’ and ‘primitive’ societies, including African mothers. This book asks what black mothers living in the UK and Canada make of this philosophy and uncovers a wide range of engagements with AP including rejection, indifference and embrace.
Bristol University Press will provide a special discount on the book to those who attend the launch event.
The event will be chaired by Dr Sinikka Elliott, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
About the author
Dr Patricia Hamilton is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the UCL Social Research Institute. Her work brings together black feminist theory, particularly intersectionality, and parenting culture studies to examine the raced, classed and gendered nature of contemporary parenting ideologies. Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting analyses the rise of attachment parenting from the perspective of black mothers living in the UK and Canada. Her current project focuses on the development of parental leave in the UK since the 1970s and includes interviews with black parents.
