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| The embodied mother-entrepreneur: Gender, micro-business and unusual spaces.; Seminar Announcement | |
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| tamsinbradley | Sep 15 2012, 08:33 AM Post #1 |
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Wednesday 26th September, 1400 - Dennis Sciama 1.12. You are invited to the launch of a series of seminars which will aim to support a developing cross-faculty, inter-disciplinary network of Portsmouth researchers/academics who work on issues related to gender. For a launch event, there will be a short seminar followed by discussion and a chance to meet and network. The embodied mother-entrepreneur: Gender, micro-business and unusual spaces. Carol Ekinsmyth, Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth. carol.ekinsmyth@port.ac.uk The media would have us believe that professional women are increasingly embarking upon business-ownership as a solution to work-life conflicts after becoming mothers. These are women who seek to merge their business and mothering identities, and their businesses are actively positioned around these mother-identities. They have been labelled ‘Mumpreneurs’ by the popular press. This presentation will introduce some research that I have been undertaking on this group. Having briefly argued the extent and importance to the economy of this business-practice, the presentation will focus on the definition of this group and the spaces, places and mechanisms through which their businesses are enacted. I argue that these entrepreneurs are breaking new ground in forging a new type of business practice where business can be profitably and beneficially constructed around the mother-role identity. There is however, perhaps a less socially progressive outcome to this activity too. Focusing on this business practice, this discussion contributes to a changing conceptualisation the social and the economic as inseparable, and considers the positives as well as the negatives of this activity for gender relations. |
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