Social support and motherhood

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Social support and motherhood

Ann Oakley

Policy Press, 2019

  • : pbk

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Social support and motherhood : the natural history of a research project

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"First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Blackwell Publishers, this paperback edition published in 2019 by ... "--T.p. verso

"Includes new introduction"--Cover

References: p. 466-497

Includes index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Social Origins
  • 'A Friend a Day Keeps the Doctor Away': Social Support and Health
  • Sickness in Salonica and Other Stories
  • Eve in the Garden of Health Research
  • A Bite of the Apple
  • Who's Afraid of the Randomized Controlled Trial?
  • 'One of Mummy's Ladies'
  • Four Women
  • 'Real' Results
  • Women at Risk
  • The Poverty of Research
  • Models of Knowing and Understanding.

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