Social Support And Motherhood: The Natural History Of A Research Project

Drawing on her long experience as an academic researcher and writer, Ann Oakley 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. This remarkable 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, Social support and motherhood is now reissued for a contemporary audience. It has much resonance for social science researchers and others interested in the experiences of mothers, and in the relations between social research, academic knowledge and public policy.

• | Author: Oakley, Ann
• | Publisher: Policy Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 540 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1447349458
• | ISBN-13: 9781447349457