Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering: Life Choices, Identities and Methods

Lyudmila Nurse · Lisa Moran · Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků

Sep 2023 · Policy Press

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What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking state, media, religious beliefs and broader society are reflected in their identities and individual life choices. Considering trust, rapport, reflexivity and self-care, this collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women’s lives.

About the author

Lyudmila Nurse is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Lisa Moran is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Care and Early Childhood, South East Technological University (SETU). Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků is Senior Researcher in the Institute for Applied Research on Ageing, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.

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