This week I had an article published in a journal entitled Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying
My piece is entitled: Bathwater, babies and other losses: a personal and academic story.
This is the abstract:
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.
As this suggests my piece includes some reflection on personal
experiences, some research stories and some examples of short fiction that I
have written. If you would like to read the article please follow this link.
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