Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change
Book Details
- Publisher : Macmillan
- Published : 2015
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 224
- Category :
Research - Category 2 :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 37609
- ISBN 13 : 9781137481252
- ISBN 10 : 9781137481
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How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? When this is the question of an empirical research project, it poses methodological challenges: how can research bring to light such experience, and how can identity change be documented, conceptualised and written about? Nineteen women's lives populate this book, as they become mothers for the first time, each unique and all having much in common amidst the diversity of East London. Through in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our understanding of the early foundations of maternal identity.
About the Author(s)
Wendy Hollway is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She co-founded the UK psycho-social network, has been active in the European psycho-social network, and co-edits the Palgrave “Studies in the Psychosocial” series. She edits a monthly Digest for Climate Psychology Alliance.
Her books include: Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity (1984/1998), with J. Henriques, C. Urwin, C. Venn, and V. Walkerdine. London: Routledge; Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method (2000/2013), with Tony Jefferson. New York: Sage and Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change (2015). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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