Knowing Mothers

Part I. A Psycho-Social Research Project Example: Introducing Principles, Methods and Practices

1. Knowing Mothers, Researching Becoming
Wendy Hollway

2. Empirical Psycho-Social Research: Design and Psychoanalytically Informed Principles
Wendy Hollway

3. The Reality of Being a Young Mother: Agency, Imagination and Objectivity
Wendy Hollway

Part II. Three Psycho-Social Perspectives on Knowing and Becoming: Psychoanalytically Informed Theorising in Mothers’ and Researchers’ Knowing

4. Weird Beyond Words: The Transgressive Corporeality of Pregnancy and Compassion-Based Ethics
Wendy Hollway

5. How Does Zelda Know and How Is Zelda Known? Psychoanalytically Informed Data Analysis
Wendy Hollway

6. Scenic Writing and Scenic Understanding
Wendy Hollway

Part III. Analysing the Politics of the Maternal Psycho-Socially

7. ‘I’m Not the Mother Type’: Gender Identity Upheaval
Wendy Hollway

8. Theorising Maternal Becoming Psycho-Socially
Wendy Hollway

9. Unfinished Business
Wendy Hollway

Keywords: Psychology, Gender Studies, Family, Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Self and Identity