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SUMMARY:'Doing Good and Feeling Bad': Psychiatry\, Motherhood\, and the W
 omen's Liberation Movement'
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series\, 
 which is held weekly (during term time).  All are welcome.\nFor further 
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                 \n\n\n\n\n\n'Doing Good and Feeling Bad': Psychiatry\, M
 otherhood\, and the Women's Liberation Movement\n \nFour demands were ad
 opted at the first national conference of the Women’s Liberation Movemen
 t\, at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970: equal pay\; equal education and 
 job opportunities\; free 24-hour childcare\; and free contraception and 
 abortion on demand. It is significant that two of these related directly
  to women’s maternal role. Emerging from an era in which motherhood had 
 been framed as a fulfilling and pleasurable responsibility\, the British
  Women’s Liberation Movement was quick to juxtapose the romanticized soc
 ial ideal of motherhood with women’s experiences of it. One of the forem
 ost ways women did this was to attack the institutions held responsible 
 for women’s oppression within the home\, of which psychiatry was one. Th
 is paper explores how feminism’s ‘second wave’ both critiqued and mobili
 zed psychiatric and psychological paradigms in order to forge a new unde
 rstanding of motherhood. It uses feminist publications such as Shrew and
  Spare Rib\, as well as papers given at events like the conference at Ru
 skin College in 1970\, to argue that women’s emotional distress in the m
 aternal role was used to evidence the need for widespread social reform.
  Using the language of psychological expertise and personal fulfillment\
 , motherhood was animated by the Women’s Liberation Movement as a tool f
 or achieving cultural change.\n                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                             
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