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 Content
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.
About the author
Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the UCL Social Research Institute. A social researcher for more than 50 years, and author of many academic publications, she is also well known for her biography, autobiography and fiction. Her books include The Sociology of Housework, From Here to Maternity and The Men’s Room which was serialised by the BBC in 1991, and most recently Women, Peace and Welfare (Policy Press, 2018).
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