Discourses of grief : the death of the mother : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

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dc.contributor.authorManderson, Daphne Anne
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-29T03:10:05Z
dc.date.available2013-05-29T03:10:05Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractThis purpose of this study was to explore the grief of daughters on the death of their mothers. I interviewed fifteen women. This study draws on feminist post-structuralist insights into subjectivity as constructed in the interplay, and between socially available discourses. I identified three interrelated and co-existing discourses through which the metadiscourse of grief arose. These discourses were continuity, discontinuity and silencing. Two distinct patternings of the discourses were identified within the corpus of the text, and these seemed to be shaped primarily by the age of the woman when her mother died. These discourses are considered and collated within the social/historical context in which medical and psychological notions of grief have been hegemonic, and other subordinated and lay discourses are emerging. I suggest the understanding of oneself as a daughter in grief changes over time. The women interviewed in this study showed a 'desire' not to 'get over it' and disconnect, but to incorporate a continuing bond with the mother. How this is achieved is explained.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/4553
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectMothers and daughtersen
dc.subjectBereavementen
dc.subjectDeathen
dc.subjectPsychological aspectsen
dc.subjectPsychologyen
dc.titleDiscourses of grief : the death of the mother : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophyen
dc.typeThesisen
massey.contributor.authorManderson, Daphne Anneen
thesis.degree.disciplineNursingen
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en
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