Research Catalog

Title

Knowing mothers : researching maternal identity change / Wendy Hollway.

Author

Hollway, Wendy

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

xiii, 216 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Studies in the psychosocial

Uniform Title

Studies in the psychosocial

Subject

• Motherhood > Psychological aspects
• Mother and child
• Mothers > Psychology
• Identity (Psychology)
• Mutterschaft
• Identität
• Child & developmental psychology
• Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology
• Childcare
• Gender studies: women & girls
• Gender studies: women
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
• Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
• Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
• Psychology of gender
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• Mother-Child Relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. I. A Psycho-Social Research Project Example: Introducing Principles, Methods and Practices. 1. Introduction: Knowing Mothers, Researching Becoming -- 2. Empirical Psycho-social Research: Design and Psychoanalytically Informed Principles -- 3. The Reality of Being a Young Girl: Agency, Imagination and Objectivity
• Pt. II. Three Psychol-Social Perspectives on Knowing and Becoming Psychoanalytically Informed Theorising in Mothers' and Researchers' Knowing. 4. Weird Beyond Words: The Transgressive Corporeality of Pregnancy and Com-passion Based Ethics -- 5. Psychoanalytically Informed Data Analysis -- 6. Scenic Writing and Scenic Understanding
• Pt. III. Analysing the Politcis of the Maternal Psycho-Socially. 7. 'I'm Not the Mother Type': Gender Identity Upheaval -- 8. Theorising Maternal Becoming Psycho-socially Conclusion -- 9. Unfinished Business.

ISBN

• 9781137481252
• 1137481250
• 9781137481221
• 1137481226

LCCN

^^2014028126

OCLC

• 885228600
• SCSB-11218867

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library