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Made for the Northern Ireland Festival of Social Science 2020, this short powerful film, by Dr L... more Made for the Northern Ireland Festival of Social Science 2020,
this short powerful film, by Dr Lisa Smyth and Dr Paul Murphy, presents real life stories drawn from confidential interviews about the experience of caring for a vulnerable family member under lockdown.

The film gives a voice to family carers, a generally isolated and overlooked group, and is important viewing during these unprecedented times.

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Papers by Lisa Smyth

Springer eBooks, Dec 31, 2022

International Journal of Care and Caring, 2024

his article examines the connections between solidarity and social esteem for unpaid care. Focusi... more his article examines the connections between solidarity and social esteem for unpaid care. Focusing on the moral emotions experienced by unpaid carers during the UK’s COVID-19 pandemic, the implications for the social value accorded to care are considered. Analysis focuses on 32 qualitative interviews with 25 family carers in Northern Ireland during 2020 and 2021. Conceiving of solidarity as a norm whose strength and reach can be gauged through emotional experience, the article argues that unpaid carers’ perceptions of general indifference to caregiving indicate the weakness of democratic solidarity in this neoliberal context, with significant consequences for access to social esteem.

Womens Studies International Forum, May 1, 2002

This paper examines the problems associated with feminist articulations of rights claims and othe... more This paper examines the problems associated with feminist articulations of rights claims and other alternatives for advocating reproductive freedom. Criticisms of private choice advocacy in particular, and rights advocacy in general, are considered, along with proposals either to abandon rights claims in favour of care theory on the one hand, or advocate gendered citizenship on the other. Drawing on the

The third major strategy evident in women’s reflections on motherhood can be described as pragmat... more The third major strategy evident in women’s reflections on motherhood can be described as pragmatist. Women who inhabit the role in this way are guided less by a commitment to rational planning or alternatively the expression of inner selfhood, and more by the demands of the particular situations they find themselves in as they go about mothering. This is more than an adaptive attitude of ‘muddling through’ in an incoherent fashion, but instead can be understood as a combination of habit and creativity in finding solutions to the problems and situations that routinely arise, in ways which can offer new definitions of those situations (Joas 1993: 4; 1996: 126–7). This form of action is less linear than that of instrumental rationalism, and although also often goal-oriented, it includes not only a future-directed effort to anticipate all possible contingencies, but also a retrospective re-evaluation of goals.

A norm of choice and freedom has, perhaps surprisingly, become available as a strategy for coping... more A norm of choice and freedom has, perhaps surprisingly, become available as a strategy for coping with the range of institutional conflicts in play in motherhood, heavily loaded as it is with expectations of self-sacrifice and obligation. Adopting this normative strategy allows one to pursue an individual project of self-fulfilment by expressing one’s essential nurturing self through the mother role. While this strategy for coping with the demands of motherhood was adopted by women in both research sites included in this study, it was articulated more frequently and in stronger terms by respondents from the US.

Ethics and Social Welfare, Jun 1, 2012

Abstract This paper aims to explore the assumptions concerning the dynamics of human action under... more Abstract This paper aims to explore the assumptions concerning the dynamics of human action underpinning breastfeeding promotion campaigns in the UK. Drawing on qualitative interviews with mothers, the ways in which three problematic assumptions shape both the ...

This chapter aims to explore Ireland’s long history of struggles over access to legal abortions i... more This chapter aims to explore Ireland’s long history of struggles over access to legal abortions in the state through this lens, considering whether and to what extent the recent enactment of legislation allowing for pregnancies to be legally ended can be understood as a significant step towards a moral revolution. While the history and politics of these events is well documented (e.g. see Girvin 1993; Hesketh 1990; Hug 1999; Mullally 2005; O'Carroll 1991; O'Reilly 1992; Smyth 1992; Smyth 2005; Smyth 2008), it is worth considering the emotional tensions this honour code has generated, and the ways in which it has eventually resulted in something of a reversal.

is a lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, and a primary research partner with the... more is a lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, and a primary research partner with the Conflict in Cities project. She has worked with Martina McKnight on research module B5, Public Space in Belfast City Centre which focuses on the ways in which mothers of young children in Belfast inhabit the divided city. Her research interests lie in the fields of gender and reproduction, gendered national/cultural identities, moral politics, feminist politics and intimate citizenship. L.

Brenda lives with her husband and two children in an upmarket commuter town in southern Californi... more Brenda lives with her husband and two children in an upmarket commuter town in southern California, in an impressive house which is stylishly decorated and furnished, including a piano in the living room. Her home is pristinely clean with nothing out of place, something that Brenda takes care of herself, and seems to take pride in.1 She described herself as a person who needs to be productive, and her daily life is filled with domestic chores, childcare and the occasional client. Rational planning is the guiding principle of her life.

Routledge eBooks, Mar 23, 2009

Abstract Infant feeding policies raise issues concerning women's citizenship in specific cul... more Abstract Infant feeding policies raise issues concerning women's citizenship in specific cultural contexts. Building on recent feminist work on the social and political, as distinct from the biological value of breastfeeding for women (eg, Hausman 2004; Wolf 2006), this ...

Choice Reviews Online, Dec 1, 2012

Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and ... more Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women The Demands of Motherhood: Agents, Roles and Recognitions. The Demands Of Motherhood: Agents, Roles And Recognitions. Indian education and bureaucracy: the school at.-Collections palgrave macmillan studies in family and intimate life the demands of motherhood book subtitle agents roles and recognition download and read the demands of. Promoting womens agency-World Bank Group Ebook The Demands Of Motherhood Agents Roles And Recognitions Palgrave Macmillan. Studies In Family And Intimate Life currently available at Sociocultural and political changes among the Crees of Québec The Demands Of Motherhood: Agents, Roles And Recognitions palgrave Macmillan. Books, Textbooks, Education eBay! 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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2017

This chapter focuses on the question of how to explain agency in the context of motherhood. In so... more This chapter focuses on the question of how to explain agency in the context of motherhood. In so doing, it seeks to go beyond the tendency to focus exclusively on the burden of coordination which institutional structures generate for mothers, in order to examine the evaluative burden which normative structures demand of this role. Drawing on interview material with 40 middle class mothers across two research sites in the UK and US, the paper develops a three-part typology of maternal role performance. This relies on the insights of contemporary action theory, with its emphasis on emotionally configured intersubjective interpretation of normative structures, and more specifically on Joas's pragmatist theorisation of social action as a creative process. The paper argues that maternal agency takes three distinct ideal-typical forms, namely romantic expressivism, rational instrumentalism, and pragmatism. These are conceived as distinct creative responses to the evaluative demands of motherhood, as the agents go about interpreting situated norms, needs and interests.

The film gives a voice to family carers, a generally isolated and overlooked group, and is important viewing during these unprecedented times.

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Springer eBooks, Dec 31, 2022

International Journal of Care and Caring, 2024

Womens Studies International Forum, May 1, 2002

Ethics and Social Welfare, Jun 1, 2012

Routledge eBooks, Mar 23, 2009

Choice Reviews Online, Dec 1, 2012

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2017

Arts & Health, Dec 26, 2018

Engaging hard-to-reach populations in research on health in pregnancy: the value of Boal's simult... more Engaging hard-to-reach populations in research on health in pregnancy: the value of Boal's simultaneous dramaturgy.

Sociology 54(2):433-35, 2020

Global Observatory, 2023

In December 2021, the Global Observatory held an online workshop titled A Question of Life: Human... more In December 2021, the Global Observatory held an online workshop titled A Question of Life: Human Dignity, Reproductive Rights, and Abortion Politics. This event explored political struggles over the limits of life by focusing on abortion politics across different national contexts, with a special focus on the recent liberalization of abortion rights across Latin American countries. This convening was a response to the then-recent decriminalization of abortion in Mexico, but throughout, the United States served as an implicit counterpoint, as another liberal democracy that was moving in the opposite direction. Indeed, the event anticipated the overturn of decades of precedent set by the Roe v. Wade decision, which came six months after A Question of Life with the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In the wake of this decision, we asked several of the panelists from A Question of Life to respond to a series of prompts designed to shed light on Dobbs by comparing the framings of abortion politics and constellations of rights and responsibilities across their respective countries of focus. The result helps us understand how different cultural and historical contexts have shaped the abortion debate across different countries and produced different settlements between state obligations to protect life and the right to receive an abortion.