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Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change (Studies in the Psychosocial)
Wendy Hollway
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Description for Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change (Studies in the Psychosocial)
Paperback. How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout 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: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMAF; JMC; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout 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.
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137481252
SKU
V9781137481252
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Ref
99-15
About Wendy Hollway
Wendy Hollway is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at The Open University, UK. She has written extensively on empirical psycho-social methods using psychoanalytically informed interviewing and observation, as well as on mothering, care and subjectivity. The project on which this book is based was funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council, part of the Identities and Social Action programme.
Reviews for Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change (Studies in the Psychosocial)
“Hollway delves into the complexity of maternal identity to shed light on a deeply subjective time of human existence gravely overlooked in the masculine research domains of mental and physical health and medicine. … Hollway offers researchers and helping professionals a place to start in the development of a psychosocial approach to researching the less evident realms of human intra-and ... Read more