A. R. Ward

ORCID: 0000-0003-2192-0618
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Research Areas
  • African history and culture studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Manchester Metropolitan University
2025

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
1988

This article explores performances of intensive motherhood in the context taking children to visit Manchester’s Christmas markets. Much sociological literature has studied within safe, managed space home. Less work, however, examined urban spaces. Through in-depth interviews with 16 mothers recent experience their markets, we highlight how such festive experiences surface tensions display. Intensive is grounded shielding from risk, yet our findings reveal visiting city-centre during period...

10.1177/00380385241311864 article EN cc-by Sociology 2025-01-28
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