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Parenting, Care & Kinship in the Early Modern World
Eliska Bujokova, a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, explores the gendering of care provision and childcare in eighteenth-century London.
In this video, Eliska Bujokova, a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, explores the gendering of care provision and childcare in eighteenth-century London.
When we think of care provision, we often turn to a feminised world of mothers, servants, nurses and midwives. But was care in the past inherently feminine? By exploring eighteenth-century visual culture, Eliska explores care as a concept, showing that it was fundamentally shaped by social, economic, racial, ethnic and gendered factors.
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Having listened to Eliska talking about care, kinship and gender, how much do you think that society has changed between the eighteenth century and today?
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