New ISOTIS book: Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

ISOTIS researchers Lyudmila Nurse and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků, and colleague Lisa Moran edit Bristol University Press book Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering: Life Choices, Identities and Methods.

What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives.

This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking state, media, religious beliefs and broader society are reflected in their identities and individual life choices. Considering trust, rapport, reflexivity and self-care, this collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women’s lives.

The following chapters were based on ISOTIS data:

Nurse, L., Moran, L., & Sidiropulu-Janků, K. (2023). "Biographical approaches to mothering: identities and lived realities". In Nurse, L., Moran, L. and Sidiropulu-Janků, K. (Editors) Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering: Life Choices, Identities and Methods. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447365648.int001

Nurse, L. (2023). " Identities and life choices of mothers in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in England". In Nurse, L., Moran, L. and Sidiropulu-Janků, K. (Editors) Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering: Life Choices, Identities and Methods. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447365648.ch005