This episode on Office Hours, we talk with Megan Comfort about her book, Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison. The book is the outcome of her ethnographic research at San Quentin Prison, studying how intimate relationships are sustained while male partners are incarcerated.
family
This episode we talk with three authors of two articles from the Winter 2011 issue of Contexts: Lisa Dodson and Wendy Luttrell, authors of Families Facing Untenable Choices, and Stefanie Mollborn, author of “Children” Having Children. We discuss why Americans are so tough on single moms and teen moms, the untenable choices that they face, and why supporting moms is a smart social investment.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Hilary Levey talks to Jesse and Arturo about her Spring 2010 Contexts feature, Balloon Boy Plus Ei8ht? Children and Reality Television.
Also: check out Levey’s editorial in USA Today on the topic of Reality TV kids.
And if you don’t watch as much television as you know you should (it’s ok—we don’t judge), here are a few clips referenced in the interview:
Jon & Kate Plus 8
Cute Kids. (TLC disabled embedding).
The Breakup:
Kid Nation
NYC Prep
This episode, Julie Artis discusses her Fall 2009 Contexts article, Breastfeed at your own Risk — which you can read online at thesocietypages.org for free, by the way! Artis discusses the history of breastfeeding, and what breastfeeding can tell us about motherhood, gender and culture. She also addresses the reaction to her article and it’s title.
But first, Jeremy Minyard shares a discovery about socioeconomic differences in college transfer.
This week, Jeffrey Dixon talks Turkey, Islam and the EU. What can the debate about Turkey joining the EU tell us about religion, democracy and globalization? Listen in and find out!
But first, Hollie Nyseth shares a discovery about how mothers’ community participation affects their child’s health.
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do! You can find it at thesocietypages.org/podcast/survey!
This week’s guest is Jessie Daniels, author of Cyber Racism and blogger at Racism Review and Contech. Cyber Racism is about white supremacist groups online, and Daniels tells us how white supremacy online is important for how we think about education, free spech and multiculturalism.
Also, Kia Heise discusses Karin Martin’s Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers’ Assumptions, Talk, and Strategies with Young Children.
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do! You can find it at thesocietypages.org/podcast/survey!
This episode we talk with three authors of two articles from the Winter 2011 issue of Contexts: Lisa Dodson and Wendy Luttrell, authors of Families Facing Untenable Choices, and Stefanie Mollborn, author of “Children” Having Children. We discuss why Americans are so tough on single moms and teen moms, the untenable choices that they face, and why supporting moms is a smart social investment.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Hilary Levey talks to Jesse and Arturo about her Spring 2010 Contexts feature, Balloon Boy Plus Ei8ht? Children and Reality Television.
Also: check out Levey’s editorial in USA Today on the topic of Reality TV kids.
And if you don’t watch as much television as you know you should (it’s ok—we don’t judge), here are a few clips referenced in the interview:
Jon & Kate Plus 8
Cute Kids. (TLC disabled embedding).
The Breakup:
Kid Nation
NYC Prep
This episode, Julie Artis discusses her Fall 2009 Contexts article, Breastfeed at your own Risk — which you can read online at thesocietypages.org for free, by the way! Artis discusses the history of breastfeeding, and what breastfeeding can tell us about motherhood, gender and culture. She also addresses the reaction to her article and it’s title.
But first, Jeremy Minyard shares a discovery about socioeconomic differences in college transfer.
This week, Jeffrey Dixon talks Turkey, Islam and the EU. What can the debate about Turkey joining the EU tell us about religion, democracy and globalization? Listen in and find out!
But first, Hollie Nyseth shares a discovery about how mothers’ community participation affects their child’s health.
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do! You can find it at thesocietypages.org/podcast/survey!
This week’s guest is Jessie Daniels, author of Cyber Racism and blogger at Racism Review and Contech. Cyber Racism is about white supremacist groups online, and Daniels tells us how white supremacy online is important for how we think about education, free spech and multiculturalism.
Also, Kia Heise discusses Karin Martin’s Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers’ Assumptions, Talk, and Strategies with Young Children.
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do! You can find it at thesocietypages.org/podcast/survey!