Knowing mothers : researching maternal identity change / Wendy Hollway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollway, Wendy, author.

Series:

Studies in the psychosocial

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Psychological aspects.

Motherhood.

Mother and child.

Mothers--Psychology.

Mothers.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xiii, 216 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

Part I A Psycho-Social Research Project Example: Introducing Principles, Methods and Practices

1 Knowing Mothers, Researching Becoming 3

2 Empirical Psycho-Social Research: Design and Psychoanalytically Informed Principles 29

3 The Reality of Being a Young Mother: Agency, Imagination and Objectivity 57

Part II Three Psycho-Social Perspectives on Knowing and Becoming: Psychoanalytically Informed Theorising in Mothers' and Researchers Knowing

4 Weird Beyond Words: The Transgressive Corporeality of Pregnancy and Compassion-Based Ethics 79

5 How Does Zelda Know and How Is Zelda Known? Psychoanalytically Informed Data Analysis 101

6 Scenic Writing and Scenic Understanding 122

Part III Analysing the Politics of the Maternal Psycho-Socially

7 'I'm Not the Mother Type': Gender Identity Upheaval 139

8 Theorising Maternal Becoming Psycho-Socially 163

In Conclusion

9 Unfinished Business 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137481252

1137481250

9781137481221

1137481226

OCLC:

885228600