Ellie Lee
Ellie Lee (* 1969 ) is a British sociologist. She teaches social policy at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) and is director of the Center of Parenting Culture Studies at the same institution. Lee is a pioneer in the emerging field of parenting culture .
Life and research
Lee received his PhD from the SSPSSR's Center of Women's Studies in the late 1990s. From 2000–2004 she was a lecturer at the University of Southampton , where she subsequently researched pregnancy and abortion in teenagers as a Research Fellow. Lee is an articulate advocate of women's rights to abortion . In October 2007 she reported to the Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Commons on women's need for abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy. In 2004 she returned to the SSPSSR from the University of Southampton, where she now teaches as a Senior Lecturer .
Her other areas of interest and research include reproductive medicine , infant nutrition, postpartum depression, and men's health.
Publications (selection)
Books
- Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health: The Medicalization of Reproduction in the US and Britain . Aldine Transaction, New York 2003, ISBN 0-202-30680-1 .
- with Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth , Jan Macvarish : Parenting Culture Studies . Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN 978-1-137-30463-6 .
Essays
- with Frank Furedi : Mothers' experience of, and attitudes to, the use of infant formula for feeding babies , SSPSSR, 2005.
- Health, morality, and infant feeding: British mothers' experiences of formula milk use in the early weeks . Sociology of Health & Illness, Volume 29, 2007, pp. 1075-1090.
- Living with risk in the age of 'intensive motherhood': Maternal identity and infant feeding . Health, Risk & Society, Volume 10, 2008, pp. 467-477.
- with Jan Macvarish and Jennie Bristow: Risk, health and parenting culture . Health, Risk & Society, Volume 12, 2010, pp. 293-300.
- with Charlotte Faircloth: Introduction: Changing Parenting Culture . Sociological Research Online, Volume 15, 2010.
- Breast-feeding advocacy, risk society and health moralism: a decade's scholarship . Sociology Compass, Volume 5, 2011, pp. 1058-1069.
Web links
- Ellie Lee , University of Kent
- Dr. Ellie Lee - Senior Lecturer in Social Policy Video
- Online publications by Ellie Lee in Spiked
- Is breast best? Christina Hopkinson hears the latest views in the debate on baby-feeding Daily Telegraph, Jul 7, 2005 (via a study by Lee)
Individual evidence
- ^ Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967
- ^ A b University of Kent: Dr Ellie Lee. Retrieved December 2, 2015 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lee, Ellie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |