Add to ORKGA comparison of stories told in research interviews by people who have no children with those that introduce children and grandchildren. The performance of identity work is considered, giving examples of co-construction. The data include extracts from others’ interview transcripts (Qualidata studies SN 5237, SN 6011, 1998-2002) and from interviews held this year with childfree women from my original study now aged over 60 years. I discuss the resources drawn upon which accommodate the unique details of a particular speaker’s life while also doing work against commonly held assumptions that childlessness is a problematic category requiring explanation
In the theoretical part of the thesis, the life-story acquisition and analysis as research methods a...
Ph.D. - Using Narrative Inquiry to complete a qualitative study. Semi-structured face to face interv...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....
How do people who are not parents talk about their lives, relationships and their experience of agei...
Objectives This paper reviews transcripts of interviews with childless older people. It addresses r...
Government proposals on care for older people often elicit responses on the need to return to the at...
There is a shortage of qualitative longitudinal data on the experience in ageing of people without c...
Narrative approaches to understanding later life are increasingly being used within gerontology, alb...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....
This paper discusses a speaker's narrative and discursive work to counter the negative associations ...
The aim of this article is not only to discuss how the interview method has implications for the con...
Single and childless women over the age of 35 constitute an expanding demographic in North America a...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....
This paper describes a qualitative design research study investigated through the development and ap...
This paper demonstrates the contribution a synthetic narrative-discursive approach can make to under...
In the theoretical part of the thesis, the life-story acquisition and analysis as research methods a...
Ph.D. - Using Narrative Inquiry to complete a qualitative study. Semi-structured face to face interv...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....
How do people who are not parents talk about their lives, relationships and their experience of agei...
Objectives This paper reviews transcripts of interviews with childless older people. It addresses r...
Government proposals on care for older people often elicit responses on the need to return to the at...
There is a shortage of qualitative longitudinal data on the experience in ageing of people without c...
Narrative approaches to understanding later life are increasingly being used within gerontology, alb...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....
This paper discusses a speaker's narrative and discursive work to counter the negative associations ...
The aim of this article is not only to discuss how the interview method has implications for the con...
Single and childless women over the age of 35 constitute an expanding demographic in North America a...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....
This paper describes a qualitative design research study investigated through the development and ap...
This paper demonstrates the contribution a synthetic narrative-discursive approach can make to under...
In the theoretical part of the thesis, the life-story acquisition and analysis as research methods a...
Ph.D. - Using Narrative Inquiry to complete a qualitative study. Semi-structured face to face interv...
This article provides the rationale for doing research on childlessness and parenthood in late life....