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Please join the virtual book launch for Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting: A Black Femini st Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada by Patricia H amilton. The book launch will take place on February 24\, 2021 at 1:30 pm P T (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.
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Patricia Hamilton's book Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting is the resul t of 19 interviews with black mothers living in the UK and Canada. The book examines attachment parenting (AP)\, a new parenting philosophy that empha sises breastfeeding\, babywearing and bedsharing as key techniques to achie ve a secure attachment between parent and child. Most commonly associated w ith American paediatrician William Sears\, attachment parenting advocates c laim that the philosophy is inspired by the practices of parents in 'tradit ional' and 'primitive' societies\, including African mothers. This book ask s what black mothers living in the UK and Canada make of this philosophy an d uncovers a wide range of engagements with AP including rejection\, indiff erence and embrace.
Bristol University Press will provide a special d iscount on the book to those who attend the launch event.
The event w ill 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 Re search Fellow in the UCL Social Research Institute. Her work brings togethe r black feminist theory\, particularly intersectionality\, and parenting cu lture studies to examine the raced\, classed and gendered nature of contemp orary parenting ideologies. Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting analyses the rise of attachment parenting from the perspective of black mo thers living in the UK and Canada. Her current project focuses on the devel opment of parental leave in the UK since the 1970s and includes interviews with black parents.
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