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Knowing Mothers
Wendy Hollway
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Description for Knowing Mothers
Hardback. 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: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMAF; JMC; JMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137481221
SKU
V9781137481221
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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
“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