Bathwater, babies and other losses
A personal and academic story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15082540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gayle Letherby (0000-0003-4709-2523, University of Plymouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 128-144 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mortality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-6275 • E-ISSN: 1469-9885 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13576275.2014.989494 |
| OpenAlex | W2088760738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 34 |
In this article, I provide a sociologically informed auto/biographical account of my experience of grief and griefwork following the death of my husband William John Shiels (1948–2010) and my parents Ronald (Ron) Thornton (1923–1979) and Dorothy Thornton (1931–2012). Additionally, I discuss my personal, and academic, experience with reference to ‘infertility’ and ‘involuntary childlessness’. I reflect on the significance of my sociological imagination for the griefwork I do myself and with others and I consider how my experience of reproductive loss led me to sociology and how in turn sociology has influenced my experience of loss. In this piece, as in others I have written, I make epistemological connections between my academic work and my personal experience. I also reflect on the use of creative methodologies and different ways to tell academic stories and contribute to this approach
Aesthetics · Childlessness · Epistemology · Fertility · Grief · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Reproductive Health and Technologies
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Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia
The Unlived Life Is Worth Examining
Out of the blue and into it
Embodied Storytelling
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Reproduction research
Telling digital stories as feminist research and practice
Handbook of qualitative research
Writing Culture
Continuing bonds after bereavement
Introduction
Situated Objectivity in Sociology
Feminism and Methodology
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research
Feminist Epistemologies
Writing the Social
Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology
Anthropology and Autobiography
The only honest thing
Continuing Bonds and Reconstructing Meaning
A technology of care
The Sociological Imagination
Childless No Choice
I'm Not the Man I Was
The meanings of miscarriage
Non-Motherhood
Case and Situation Analysis
Reproductive Freedom
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Claims and Disclaimers
A Child of Its Time
Glimpses of Street Life
The Management of Hunger
Dear Researcher
Weaving Stories
On Auto/Biography in Sociology
The Public and Private in C.Wright Mills's Life and Work
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |