Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research Project
Ann Oakley
Abstract
Drawing on vast experience as an academic researcher and writer, the author develops a sociology of the research process itself, telling the story of how a research project is undertaken and what happens during it, to both researchers and those who are researched. The book focuses on a topic of great importance in the provision of health services — caring and social support. Setting neglect of this topic in the wider context of an ongoing crisis in gendering knowledge, this book is now reissued for a contemporary audience. It has much resonance for social science researchers and others interes ... More
Keywords: research process, research project, health services, social support, care support, mothers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447349457 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447349457.001.0001 |
