Mavis Machirori
Biographic Data
| ID | 942316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mavis Machirori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mavis |
| FAMILY NAME | Machirori |
| SIGNATURE | MACHIRORI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9006-3157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interrogating our past to shape the future
Constructs and contradictions of mothering identities as experienced by new mothers in the postnatal period in a contemporary urban setting
The postnatal transition to mothering is experienced in a range of ways, and brings with it diverse emotions and reflections on one’s own identity and the anticipated (spoken or not) actions that should accompany those identities. Accounts of mothering highlight some difficult and contested ideals and behaviours that new mothers have to work through. Based on empirical work conducted with new mothers from a west London borough, I will show how mo…
It didn’t mean anything” – moving within a landscape of knowledge to interpret genetics and genetic test results within familial cancer concerns
Genetics is increasingly defining how we understand health and disease, affecting for some, their understanding of inherited disease, and the meaning of medical genetic information. When interpretations of hereditary conditions are determined, partly, by one’s familial experience of heritable characteristics and partly by various other lived experiences, the meaning of genetics becomes highly personal. Through descriptions of stocks of knowledge,…
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Constructs and contradictions of mothering identities as experienced by new mothers in the postnatal period in a contemporary urban setting
The postnatal transition to mothering is experienced in a range of ways, and brings with it diverse emotions and reflections on one’s own identity and the anticipated (spoken or not) actions that should accompany those identities. Accounts of mothering highlight some difficult and contested ideals and behaviours that new mothers have to work through. Based on empirical work conducted with new mothers from a west London borough, I will show how mo…
It didn’t mean anything” – moving within a landscape of knowledge to interpret genetics and genetic test results within familial cancer concerns
Genetics is increasingly defining how we understand health and disease, affecting for some, their understanding of inherited disease, and the meaning of medical genetic information. When interpretations of hereditary conditions are determined, partly, by one’s familial experience of heritable characteristics and partly by various other lived experiences, the meaning of genetics becomes highly personal. Through descriptions of stocks of knowledge,…
Interrogating our past to shape the future
Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (1 work) · Battle (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Borough (1 work) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (1 work) · Cancer (1 work)