From the Little Wife to the Supermom? Maternographies of Feminism and
                    Mothering in Australia since 1945

Leahy, Carla Pascoe

doi:10.1353/fem.2019.0004

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“…This relates to my motivations for commencing this research: because public discussion of mothering in 21st-century Australia is simplistic and impoverished, linked to a wider cultural depreciation of care (Stephens, 2011). This cultural devaluation of mothering is echoed in the surprising lack of historical research into Australian mothering I have analysed previously (Pascoe, 2015; Pascoe Leahy, 2019a). Although women often experience mothering as enriching, it is challenging to frame their narratives thus without a cultural script as reference point.…”

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“…The central focus is the creation of 60 oral history interviews with a diverse sample of mothers. Extending oral historian Abrams’ concept of ‘feminographies’ (2019), I call these interviews ‘maternographies’: narratives of mothering framed by a woman’s life story (Pascoe Leahy, 2019a). Throughout this research, I have been conscious I am investigating an emotionally and culturally loaded transition.…”

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The afterlife of interviews: explicit ethics and subtle ethics in sensitive or distressing qualitative research

Leahy

2021

Qualitative Research

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When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpected distress that can surface in interviews concerning topics laden with personal significance are different to the readily anticipated trauma that accompanies interviews in post-crisis or post-conflict situation. This article analyses the ethical considerations that accompany such research, drawing upon literature from oral history and qualitative sociology. The article traces ethical issues during the temporal phases of qualitative research – before, during and after an interview – before proposing three strategies that interviewers can adopt to help protect narrators from ongoing harm or distress after an interview. Such ethical safeguards include the self-interview, the post-interview follow-up with the narrator, and adopting an ethics of reciprocity that allows the narrator to feel that they are contributing to a larger purpose through involvement in research.

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