Social Science Marriage & Family
Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering
Life Choices, Identities and Methods
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2023
- Category
- Marriage & Family, Children's Studies, Methodology, Women's Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781447365624
- Publish Date
- Oct 2023
- List Price
- $159.95 USD
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What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking state, media, religious beliefs and broader society are reflected in their identities and individual life choices. Considering trust, rapport, reflexivity and self-care, this collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women’s lives.
About the authors
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Claudia Malacrida is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge.
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Lyudmila Nurse is Research Director at Oxford XXI think tank.
Head of Department and Senior Lecturer at South East Technological University (SETU).