Interviewing Mothers: Reflections on closeness and reflexivity in research encounters

Taking as a starting point the idea that a researcher's subjectivity is data and a resource for interpretation, I write about my own experience of combining motherhood and paid work, undertaking a psychosocial study of first time motherhood. I reflect on the emotional work involved in undertaki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renaud Beeckmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-01-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4104/