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, Soci...