Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change

by Wendy Hollway

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137481250
• ISBN13: 9781137481252
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"