Bathwater, babies and other losses

A personal and academic story

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15082540
AutoresGayle Letherby (0000-0003-4709-2523, University of Plymouth, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume20
Fascículo2
Páginas128-144
Data de publicação2015-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMortality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1357-6275 • E-ISSN: 1469-9885
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13576275.2014.989494
OpenAlexW2088760738
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas34

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